Isamu's American Dream

Isamu's American Dream was named Nebraska Book Center award winner for historical fiction of 2025.America at Last. Isamu watches intently from the deck of the S.S. Coptic as San Francisco comes into view-the fulfillment of a dream. A new century is about to begin. Isamu is handsome, charismatic, and has money in his pocket. Anything is possible.But his dream does not include bubonic plague or a devastating earthquake. Nor does it include racial prejudice or anti-miscegenation laws.The trading company is put on hold when Isamu has to settle for the first job he can find, at a small American diner near the San Francisco wharf. Lola Cervantes, beautiful and mesmerizing, steals Isamu's heart from the beginning, and even though Lola shares the feeling, her mother does not.Fr. Katz was right. San Francisco is not Kamaishi.Share Isamu's joys and sorrows in Book 3 of the Kamaishi Heritage series.

Pagina's: 614, Editie: Large type / Large print, Hardcover, Donald D Davenport