This Time Will Be Different

Katsuyamas never quit—but seventeen-year-old cj doesn't even know how to get started. Shes never lived up to her Moms type a ambition, and shes perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family flower shop. She doesn't buy into hannahs romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, cj discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. But when her mom decides to sell the shop—to the family who swindled cjs grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during wwii—a Rift threatens to splinter her family, friends, and their entire northern California community. And for the first time, cj feels like shes found something she wants to fight for. Miss sugiuras first novel, its not like its a secret, earned the Asian Pacific American Award for young adult literature, and her second novel brings readers a new and thoughtfully rendered story about community and personal history, family and identity, and the ways we bridge the gaps between them.