Even the warm, loving relationship Kim shares with her mother, her stepfather, and her half brother can't give sixteen-year-old Kim/Kimi the answers she needs. Half the time she's Kim Andrews, living in her all-white Iowa community- the other half she's Kimi Yogushi, searching for her true identity. She must find out more about her Japanese-American father, who died before she was born, and his family, if there is any. Perhaps then she can solve her inner conflict.

Even the warm, loving relationship Kim shares with her mother, her stepfather, and her half brother can't give sixteen-year-old Kim/Kimi the answers she needs. Half the time she's Kim Andrews, living in her all-white Iowa community- the other half she's Kimi Yogushi, searching for her true identity. She must find out more about her Japanese-American father, who died before she was born, and his family, if there is any. Perhaps then she can solve her inner conflict.