Summary Of The Language Inside By Holly Thompson

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The Language Inside by Holly Thompson is an intriguing verse novel that follows a teenage girl named Emma Karas who was born in Massachusetts but had grown up in Japan. After an earthquake and a tsunami, Emma’s best friend, Madoka has to spend her time trying to clean her family’s place up while others look for her missing aunt. After a few weeks of helping Madoka, Emma finds out that her mother has breast cancer and that her family has to move to Boston for surgery. She has to pack up and move to her grandmother’s house in Massachusetts. There, she starts volunteering at Newall Center for Long-Term Care, and she meets Samnang, another volunteer who dances and is Cambodian. Samnang has two patients who are also Cambodian. Emma’s patient