3.5 stars 
 I really liked this story. The characters were well developed and the scenes were so descriptive I felt like if I listened hard enough I would hear jazz playing in the background. It's the story of a young Chinese boy and Japanese girl during WW2 who find a soul mate in one another. They are separated when the U.S started relocating the Japanese into camps. They spend most of their lives apart and married to other people, only to find one another later in life after their spouses die. It was tragic and sad. I wanted the happy ending, but I just wasn't satisfied with it. I felt like too much time had been lost already and what the author was giving me wasn't enough. 
 Picture of one of the Japanese relocation camps: