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From Little Tokyo, With Love

Hardback

Main Details

Title From Little Tokyo, With Love
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sarah Kuhn
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780593327487
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
Teenage / Young Adult

Publishing Details

Publisher Viking Books for Young Readers
Imprint Viking Books for Young Readers
Publication Date 11 May 2021
Publication Country United States

Description

One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer! "I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book." -Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart. If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale-being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business-she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the princess mold. All that changes the instant she locks eyes with Grace Kimura, America's reigning rom-com sweetheart, during the Nikkei Week Festival. From there, Rika embarks on a madcap adventure of hope and happiness-searching for clues that Grace is her long-lost mother, exploring Little Tokyo's hidden treasures with cute actor Hank Chen, and maybe . . . finally finding a sense of belonging. But fairy tales are fiction and the real world isn't so kind. Rika knows she's setting herself up for disappointment, because happy endings don't happen to girls like her. Should she walk away before she gets in even deeper, or let herself be swept away?

Author Biography

Sarah Kuhn is the author of the popular Heroine Complex novels-a series starring Asian American superheroines. The first book is a Locus bestseller, an RT Reviewers' Choice Award nominee, and one of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog's Best Books of 2016. Her YA debut, the Japan-set romantic comedy I Love You So Mochi, is a Junior Library Guild selection and a nominee for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. She has also penned a variety of short fiction and comics, including the critically acclaimed graphic novel Shadow of the Batgirl for DC Comics and the upcoming Star Wars audiobook original Doctor Aphra. Additionally, she was a finalist for both the CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) New Writers Award and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. A third generation Japanese American, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and an overflowing closet of vintage treasures.

Reviews

"Readers will cheer for tough-but-tender Rika as she navigates the city of Los Angeles-and her own complicated emotions-in search of love, family, and belonging in this heartwarming pick-me-up of a novel." -Misa Sugiura, award-winning author of It's Not Like It's a Secret