However, they made up for it in this book with lots of separation anxiety and angst, and a really wonderful happy ending! I loved the whole dilemma of all their career paths, thinking about what they wanted to do with their lives in the present, with relation to their pasts and the people around them, really gave the characters an amazing, four-dimensional realism that was unbelievably endearing. I almost started crying when he was crying in the rain with Yuzuki - but he's definitely a flower that would live for a thousand days! I wasn't too impressed with how Rakuto confessed his love to Sachi in the last book - after nine volumes of build up, to just sort of say it without fanfare was a bit anti-climactic. What a great series! I'm so sad the story's over! But I'm thrilled with the way it ended, an excellent mix of finality and possibility for everyone! I had a heavy heart for poor Azuma, he must really have loved Sachi to help her get together with Rakuto.
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PART 4 - Opps! sorry no spoilers (but you will be intrigued by what happens). PART 3 - Henry is revived and his relationship to this new era is exposed. PART 2 - How he is discovered and what anxiety and/or thrills it causes in these future societies in both a political and spiritual way. PART 1 - How Henry finds his way to 50,000 A.D. This novel also tries to establish relationships between 'ancient' and 'new' by comparing a few aspects of the different cultures and languages that you would expect to change over these vast periods of time: does the hero of the story manage to figure out what the new languages he encounters evolved from? Henry Matthews must be something other than a human being. However, some refuse to believe human history is older than 35,000 years, so that could only mean one thing. Since their own ancient record of human existence only goes back 35,000 years, trillions of people are startled to discover the existence of an unknown ancient history when Henry awakens. Henry Matthews is about to embark on a journey of great discovery. By pure chance, in 2012, his head along with all his thoughts and memories were protected and preserved, allowing him to stay alive for 50,000 years. You might say that Henry Matthews is the luckiest man in the universe. What happens when a person from the 21st century wakes up 50,000 years in the future? Permission to Come Home is unlike any “self-help” book that I’ve read, not only because it is one of the firsts that I’ve read specifically targeted toward Asian Americans wanting to explore their mental health, but because of the compassionate, tender relationship between the author and the reader. Above all, she offers permission to return closer to home, a place of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom. Wang explores a range of life areas that call for attention, offering readers the permission to question, feel, rage, say no, take up space, choose, play, fail, and grieve. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American together with her insights as a clinician and evidence-based tools, Dr. Permission to Come Home takes Asian Americans on a journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today - they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. |