When You Were Here

Product Description

Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer two months before his high school graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heartbreaking ex-girlfriend Holland for company. He hardly knows how to act around her or what to say for his valedictory speech, let alone how to feel happy anymore. Then a letter from his mother's friend in Tokyo prompts him to drop everything and travel halfway around the world to discover his mom's secrets - to reveal why her final months were filled with so much joy. But he can't find the answers, or escape the complexities of his relationship with Holland, just by crossing an ocean. Yet amid the cherry blossoms, temples, and vibrant crowds of the neon city - and with the help of an almost-but-definitely-not Harajuku girl - Danny learns that maybe neither ancient magic nor mystical treatment kept his mother going. Kept her happy. Perhaps the secret of how to live lies in how she died. And how she loved.