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When you were here

by Daisy Whitney

GriefMothers and sonsJuvenile fictionCancerFiction
4.0
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When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death. When his mother dies shortly before high-school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.

Themes & subjects

GriefMothers and sonsJuvenile fictionCancerFictionChildren's fiction

Setting

JapanTokyo (Japan)

Author

Daisy Whitney

Pages

272

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

ISBN

9780316209731

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