When You Were Here
by:
Daisy Whitney (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00A2CF5KQ
Publish date: June 4th 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
I really wanted Danny to find peace or something when he went to Tokyo as his mood really depressed me. His mother had died a few months ago, his father passed away a few years ago and his sister basically left and he was alone. He was searching in Tokyo for whatever made his mother so happy when ...
My goodness. There are very few books that make me cry just within the first few chapters. And this one…this one hit me in the heart fast. Plot: As a parent of a little boy, I can’t imagine dying right before his graduation. But this plot…this plot grabs the reader right away. The range of emotion...
Before his high school graduation, Danny's mother succumbed to cancer. Stuck with only his dog and ex-girlfriend's mother for company, Danny doesn't think twice about high-tailing it to Japan when a letter from Tokyo arrives for him. Because there are some things that don't exactly fit the picture r...
This is the first book by Daisy Whitney that I've read, and I'm glad I did. Told from a male point of view, the story is beautifully handled, juxtaposing Danny's humdrum LA, where he barely knows how to function after his mom dies, with the buzzing, colorful, alternately crowded and serene Tokyo, wh...
Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate,...
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