But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond-a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson.
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