SAND CHRONICLES 09 PA – HINAKO ASHIHARA

Can the sands of time heal all wounds? Twelve-year-old Ann and her divorced mother move from big city Tokyo to her mother s rural hometown. As the years pass, Ann learns to trust and depend on her new friends–Daigo and aristocratic siblings Fuji and Shika. But when Ann moves back to Tokyo to be with her father, will she be able to maintain a long-distance relationship with Daigo? What were our parents like at our age? We ll never really know… But now you can get a glimpse into the teenage years of the mothers of Ann, Daigo, Fuji and Shika. How was their destiny shaped? Plus, Ann s little sister visits Shika–and Ann s ex-fiance!–in New York City.