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The gods of heavenly punishment

Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi faces the destruction of everything she knows and a new life living among the enemy after American bombers attack her city with napalm, leaving the city in ruins.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Epstein, Jennifer Cody
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Families > Fiction. Teenage girls > Japan > Fiction. Americans > Japan > Fiction. Tokyo (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1942 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American > Fiction.
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Summary:	Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi faces the destruction of everything she knows and a new life living among the enemy after American bombers attack her city with napalm, leaving the city in ruins.
Physical Description:	pages cm
ISBN:	9780393071573 039307157X
Author Notes:	Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of the international best-selling novel The Painter from Shanghai , The Gods of Heavenly Punishment (the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association adult fiction honor recipient), and most recently, Wunderland . She has written for the Wall Street Journal , Vogue , Self , Mademoiselle , and others. Epstein earned her MFA in fiction from Columbia University and an MA in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.