ONE BIRD
By Kyoko Mori

New York Times Book Review:

Kyoko Mori's second novel for young adults is so lively and affecting that one imagines its readers will be too engaged by its heroine's situation to notice how much—and how painlessly—they are learning about another culture.
— Francine Prose

Kirkus Reviews (starred review):

The text gains an intensity from the discipline with which every detail of this accomplished work is orchestrated from the first page to the last.

Publishers Weekly (starred review):

[Mori's writing has a] startling combination of delicacy in observing moods and incisiveness in defining individual actions …

School Library Journal:

Stunning, evocative … [A] well-crafted coming-of-age novel.