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A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and...

Best friends Agnes and Honey live at Mount Blessing, a religious commune. Though the girls have been best friends since they were children, differences in faith are beginning to to trouble their relationship. Agnes is striving to be saintly. Honey is desperate to escape the commune and experience the outside world. The commune itself, headed by the charismatic Emmanuel, is orderly, well run. But it’s hiding a dark secret....

My father's name is Naoko Kasai. He is a handsome, brave, wealthy, Samurai; from the island of Tochigi, Japan. When he married my mother they wanted to have children right away. My father wanted the baby to be a boy to teach him how to be a Samurai, and fight side by side. Destiny intervened and a girl was born. My mother named me Aiko. A few days before I turned eleven years old; my father asked me what I wanted for my birthday. Without hesitation I told him that I wanted a sword.