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Seventeen-year-old biracial Kai is the only member of his family to survive the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. For the tenth anniversary of 9/11, he travels to New York with other orphans to meet teens who lost parents in that tragedy--and finds his estranged American father. The poems in this gripping verse novel powerfully capture Kai's heartbreaking experience.