Hiroshima Dreams

This touching coming-of-age novel transports readers into a young girl’s journey to understanding her psychic gift and the indomitable spirit of hope. “Amazingly beautiful and heartbreaking and poignant.”—Nacy Antle, author of Lost in the War As a young child, Lin discovered that she has the gift of second sight. It is her grandmother from Japan who teaches her to develop her gift through meditation and the mysteries of Buddhism. As Lin tests the strengths and the limitations of her powers, she also has to make sense of the visions that increasingly haunt her—images of a missing child, mysterious snapshots of nuclear devastation, and the vision of a boy who will be more than a friend. With only her grandmother to guide her, Lin must learn how this inherited gift and her family’s history will shape who she will become as a young woman.