Reading order#
| # |
Title |
Published |
Author |
Buy on Amazon |
| 1 |
Crossing |
2010 |
Andrew Fukuda |
Buy |
| 2 |
This Light Between Us |
2020 |
Andrew Fukuda |
Buy |
Andrew Fukuda’s standalone novels sit outside his Hunt trilogy and cover different territory. Crossing (2010), his debut, is a literary thriller about a young boy’s harrowing journey across the US-Mexico border. This Light Between Us (2020) is a World War II historical novel that follows a Japanese American boy sent to an internment camp and his pen-pal correspondence with a French Jewish girl. Fukuda drew on his own family’s internment experience to write the book, giving it a personal weight that reviewers noted.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books are in the Andrew Fukuda Standalone Novels series?
There are 2 books in the Andrew Fukuda Standalone Novels series, published between 2010 and 2020.
What is the first book in the Andrew Fukuda Standalone Novels series?
The first book in the Andrew Fukuda Standalone Novels series is Crossing, published in 2010.
Is This Light Between Us based on a true story?
This Light Between Us is a work of fiction, but it draws on Andrew Fukuda’s own family history. His family was among the Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II, and that experience informs the novel’s story of a Japanese American boy and his French Jewish pen pal during the war.