Traci Chee is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for the Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy and We Are Not Free. Chee is fourth-generation Japanese American and resides in California where she grew up. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
In the realm of Awara, gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side. Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper's daughter. When she is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a demon prince, Miuko must outfox tricksters, escape demon hunters, and negotiate with feral gods if she wants to make it home again. But with her transformation comes power and freedom she never even dreamed of. Miuko will have to decide if saving her soul is worth trying to cram herself back into an ordinary life that no longer fits her ... and perhaps never did. -- adapted from back cover
