{"id":10325,"date":"2019-04-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:32:10","slug":"k-is-for-kiki-overwhelmed-in-starfish-by-akemi-bowman-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10325","title":{"rendered":"K is for Kiki, overwhelmed in STARFISH, by Akemi Bowman (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Divorced parents,
everything is always about Mom-
where do Kiko and her brothers fit in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not accepted by art school<\/a>, constantly belittled by her white mother for having her Japanese father’s appearance<\/a>, and now her creepy uncle is moving in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankful for Jamie coming back into her life and taking her far, far away from the chaos\u2026Kiko has to find her place and make her art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family drama sent you on a new path?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Starfish \/ Akemi Dawn Bowman. Simon Pulse, hardcover 2017, paperback 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Starting her life anew at Prism will take Kiko far from disdainful Mom and abusive Uncle Max in Nebraska, but the New York art school’s rejection shatters her plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When long-lost childhood friend Jamie offers to take her to California to tour art schools, she jumps at the chance to be with her brother’s friend whom she’s adored for years\u2026and to get away from Uncle Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half-Japanese and all confused.
\nSelf-absorbed Mom sucks all the joy out of life for Kiko and her brothers.
\nAway, away, just get away and make her art\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We all start at the same place, but you’re completely in charge of where you finish,” says noted artist Hiroshi when Kiko visits his art gallery with Jamie (p. 191) – and he wants to see her portfolio, maybe write a recommendation for someday-art-school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Divorced parents,everything is always about Mom- where do Kiko and her brothers fit in? Not accepted by art school, constantly belittled by her white mother for having her Japanese father’s appearance, and now her creepy uncle is moving in? Thankful for Jamie coming back into her life and taking her far, far away from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,203,124,4,75,105,5,16,87,18,40,44,333,39,49,184,243,193,15,9,21,57,268,35,6,8],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abuse","tag-art","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-japanese-american","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-nebraska","tag-prejudice","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/starfish-9781481487733_lg.jpg?fit=266%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10534,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions\/10534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}