A review by sc104906
Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz

4.0

Kai is a senior, who loves playing soccer and lives in Japan. He lives with his Japanese mother and grandparents, his American father abandoned the family several years ago to go live in New York. Kai has had no contact with his father since he left. A terrible earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and Kai loses everything. Kai's only living relative is his father and he is given the chance to go to America and heal with the survivors of the 9/11 attacks ten years earlier. Kai must decide whether or not he wants to reach out to his father and how he will live in this new world.