{"product_id":"bxosbd-kakigori-summer-9780063432161","title":"Kakigori Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA wry and tender novel from the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFault Lines\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eabout three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer, for readers of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHello Beautiful\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Sisters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\"Kakigori Summer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a novel about belonging... I loved retreating into its cocoon of sibling humor as the sisters briefly stepped back to discover their place in it.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFlorence Knapp, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Names\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRei, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 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...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Publishers (Us)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43601391321294,"sku":"9780063432161","price":49.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780063432161_a.png?v=1784624316","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxosbd-kakigori-summer-9780063432161","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}