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Mar 2019, 400 pages
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Apr 2020, 416 pages
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Now, two days later, I am waiting to board the plane.
Anyone else would surely be astounded that I had found Mariko so quickly. The first hit, as Toni would say, if Toni knew. Astounding.
But I hadn't been that surprised. I'm still not. I had found my old friend so easily because there is only one Mariko Inoue Hayashi in all the world.
Only the one.
Excerpted from The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner. Copyright © 2019 by Susan Meissner. Excerpted by permission of Berkley Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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