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Kakigori summer = Kakigōri no natsu / Emily Itami.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PR6109.T36 K35 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Itami, Emily, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Scandals--Fiction.
- Scandals.
- Singers--Fiction.
- Singers.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Summer--Fiction.
- Summer.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First US edition.
- Other Title:
- Kakigōri no natsu
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Boston : Mariner Books, [2025]
- Language Note:
- Text mainly in English, with some Japanese characters.
- Summary:
- When music idol Ai is embroiled in scandal, her sisters, ambitious Rei and single mother Kiki, pause their lives and spend the summer with Ai in their childhood home on the Japanese coast so they can rescue their baby sister.
- "Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kiki is the single mother of a young son, working in a retirement home in Tokyo; and Ai, the youngest, is a peripatetic Japanese music idol. Having lost both parents, one way or another, the sisters rely on each other as family, far-flung as they are. When Ai is embroiled in a scandal, Rei and Kiki pause their own lives to rescue their baby sister. Over the course of a summer spent in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters will reunite with their sharp-edged grandmother, care for Kiki's irrepressible son, and silently worry about Ai, all while carefully not talking about the circumstances of their mother's death fifteen years before. But silence between sisters can only last for so long... A transporting and redemptive novel, Kakigori Summer is a hopeful meditation on love and loss, sisterhood and family, and a profound exploration of the stories we tell ourselves about our past that enable us to move forward into the future"-- Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Parallel title appears in Japanese on title page as Kakigōri no natsu.
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by Phoenix Books, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 9780063432161
- 0063432161
- 9780063457676
- 0063457679
- OCLC:
- 1521243507
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