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Browse every Emiko Jean book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780241554739","title":"Mika In Real Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA GOOD MORNING AMERICA and READ WITH MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICK!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a best book by Glamour, Marie Claire, TIME, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom New York Times bestselling Emiko Jean, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love—how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne phone call changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She’s a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents. And, most recently, she’s been fired from her latest dead-end job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny—the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago. Penny is determined to forge a relationship with her birth mother, and in turn, Mika longs to be someone Penny is proud of. Faced with her own inadequacies, Mika embellishes a fact about her life. What starts as a tiny white lie slowly snowballs into a fully-fledged fake life, one where Mika is mature, put-together, and successful in love and her career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe details of Mika’s life might be an illusion, but everything she shares with curious, headstrong Penny is real: her hopes, dreams, flaws, and Japanese heritage. The harder-won heart belongs to Thomas Calvin, Penny’s adoptive widower father. What starts as a rocky, contentious relationship slowly blossoms into a friendship and, over time, something more. But can Mika really have it all—love, her daughter, the life she’s always wanted? Or will Mika’s deceptions ultimately catch up to her? In the end, Mika must face the truth—about herself, her family, and her past—and answer the question, just who is Mika in real life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of Rebecca Serle and Jojo Moyes, Mika in Real Life is at once a heart-wrenching and uplifting novel that explores the weight of silence, the secrets we keep, and what it means to be a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"READERS WAREHOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40489935437939,"sku":"9780241554739","price":270.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/mika-in-real-life9780241554739-211294.jpg?v=1752743986"},{"product_id":"9781529049756","title":"Tokyo Dreaming","description":"Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Tokyo Dreaming, by Emiko Jean - the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever AfterWhen Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. 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