This Time Will Be Different

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.

The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning Its Not Like Its a Secret is back with another smartly drawn coming-of-age novel that weaves riveting family drama, surprising humor, and delightful romance into a story that will draw you in from the very first page.

Katsuyamas never quitbut seventeen-year-old CJ doesnt even know where to start. Shes never lived up to her moms type A ambition, and shes perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their familys flower shop.

She doesnt buy into Hannahs romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of.

Then her mom decides to sell the shopto the family who swindled CJs grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJs family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.