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Emma Nanami Strenner

Biography

Emma Nanami Strenner

Emma Nanami Strenner is British Japanese and has a degree in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds. She has worked as a journalist for almost 20 years and as a section editor for Vogue International, Elle and Stylist. She spent most of her life living abroad in Japan, Vietnam, Australia, China, Singapore and the United States. MY OTHER HEART is her debut novel.

Emma Nanami Strenner

Books by Emma Nanami Strenner

My Other Heart
by Emma Nanami Strenner - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In June 1998, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, discuss their summer plans before college. Kit, with the support of her white adoptive parents, will travel to Tokyo to explore her Japanese roots. This dizzying adventure offers her a taste of first love and a new understanding of what it means to belong. Sabrina had hoped to take a similar trip to China, but money is tight. Her disappointment subsides, however, when she meets a bold, uncompromising new mentor who prompts Sabrina to ask questions she’s avoided all her life. Meanwhile, Mimi purchases a plane ticket to Philadelphia. She finally has a lead in her search for her daughter. When Mimi, Kit and Sabrina come face to face, they will confront the people they truly are.