![]() To support her dream, she has to work part-time service jobs where her own difference is all too apparent. ![]() Tina wants to live in a culture that’s like her own but still slightly different. ![]() Nao, the main viewpoint character of Himawari House, wants to get in touch with her Japanese roots, but she struggles with the language and occasionally feels as though she’s only wearing a costume of “being Japanese.” Her housemates are Hyejung, a fellow language student from Korea hoping to gain admission to a Japanese art college, and Tina, a young woman from Singapore who works part-time while studying for university entrance exams. Himawari House Written and Illustrated by Harmony Becker Over the course of a year, Nao and her housemates become friends and share their stories with one another, inviting the reader on an emotional journey into their everyday lives. Having decided to take a gap year between high school and college, 18-year-old Nao moves into the Himawari share house in Tokyo, where she studies Japanese language while reconnecting with her mother’s family. ![]() Himawari House by Harmony Becker ( They Called Us Enemy) is slice-of-life diaspora fiction that revolves around the sense of home, belonging, and otherness experienced by three young women living in Japan. ![]()
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