Kakigori Summer

Rei, Kiki and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. They have lost both parents, one way or another, and found their own ways of carrying on. Rei works for a financial corporation in London, halfway across the world from where she grew up. Back in Tokyo, Kiki is the single mother of a young son, working in a care home. Ai, the youngest, is a Japanese music idol. When Ai is embroiled in a scandal and suddenly thrust into the spotlight, Rei has to pick up the pieces of her family once more. Reuniting for the summer in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters are forced to confront the legacy of their mother''s suicide, the stories they have told themselves ever since and the question of how they want to live. A transporting and redemptive novel about love and loss, this new novel from the author of Fault Lines confirms Emily Itami as a talent to watch.

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A transporting, entertaining and moving novel about three sisters reunited for a summer on the Japanese coast, from the acclaimed author of Fault Lines

Résumé

Rei, Kiki and Ai are three sisters whose lives have taken them on very different paths. They have lost both parents, one way or another, and each found their own ways of carrying on. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a financial corporation in London. Big-hearted Kiki is a single mother in Tokyo, juggling the demands of her young son and the cantankerous elderly residents of the care home she works in. And Ai, the free-spirited youngest, is a Japanese pop idol who has found fame and fortune but lost herself along the way.

When Ai is embroiled in a scandal and suddenly thrust into the spotlight, Rei must pick up the pieces of her family once more. Reunited for the summer in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters are forced to confront the legacy of their mother's death, the stories they have told themselves ever since and the question of how they want to live.

A transporting, funny and moving novel about love and loss, this new novel from the author of Fault Lines confirms Emily Itami as a talent to watch.