The book my group is reading is called A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida. The book takes place in Berkeley, California around 1930. The story is told by a second generation 11 year old Japanese girl named Rinko Tsujimura along with mama, papa, her older brother Cal(short for California), her younger brother Joji, and her neighbor Ms.Sugar. So the book starts out Rinko comes home to find the kitchen a mess, then goes to papa’s Barber shop but goes the wrong way and gets yelled at by Wilbur Star(owner of Star Laundry who I personally think is racist), talks about how lonely she is in school, and then gets to papa’s barber shop. She tells him the kitchen is a mess, which surprises him to considering mamas neatness. Rinko also tells about
