A twelve-year-old Japanese-American girl works a Midwest wheat harvest with her grandparents during a year of bad luck.
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A twelve-year-old Japanese-American girl works a Midwest wheat harvest with her grandparents during a year of bad luck.
'Kouun is "good luck" in Japanese, and one year my family had none of it.' Just when Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, an emergency whisks her parents away to Japan, right before harvest season. But the mortgage has to be paid, and so Summer's grandparents are going to help with harvest instead - taking Summer, her little brother Jaz and their dog Thunder with them. Obaachan and Jiichan are… well, they're old fashioned, and demanding. Between helping Obaachan cook for the workers
will contain mild spoilers
Mild crush on the harvest boss’s son; attraction only, no intimacy
No violence or gore depicted
No profanity present
No substance use depicted
No LGBTQIA+ representation present
No religious content present
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult content present
Light background themes of migrant farm labor and Japanese-American life
No self-harm or suicide content
No abuse depicted
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