MG-YA Fiction
Orchards
Orchards is a novel in verse that explores the complexities of a 14-year-old girl's Japanese/Jewish/American identity during a summer spent with relatives in Japan. Delacorte/Random House, spring 2011.
Children's
The Wakame Gatherers
Bicultural Nanami goes seaweed gathering with her Japanese and American grandmothers. While translating for the two women she comes to understand they were at war when they were her age.
Adult Fiction
Ash - A Novel
"A wonderfully insightful novel about a young woman living within two cultures. Thompson adeptly explores the lasting bonds of friendship and the courage needed to face the past in order to embrace the future."—Gail Tsukiyama, author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai’s Garden
Short Stories
The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan
This anthology of short stories by expatriates in Japan was edited by Suzanne Kamata and features Holly Thompson's story "Bloodlines."
