Standing up for your name and thereby standing up for your identity and heritage is a hard lesson to learn alone, especially as a young person, but it’s made much easier when young people can see their experiences reflected in not only the books they read but also the authors that write them. Not all of us are fortunate enough to have a group of friends that look like us and share our struggles like Izumi’s three best friends, otherwise known as the “AGG” or Asian Girl Gang. As Izumi’s brash, supportive best friend Noora lays out plainly, “If white people can learn Klingon, they can learn to pronounce your name.” “As an adolescent, when my name was mispronounced, it made me feel so small. Just as Izumi allowed others to call her Izzy for their ease and comfort, Jean used to not speak up about the mispronunciation of her name either. Tokyo Dreaming: A Novel (Tokyo Ever After, 2) Hardcover by Emiko Jean (Author) 570 ratings Book 2 of 2: Tokyo Ever After Editors' pick Best Young Adult See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.49 42 Used from 4.21 33 New from 5. Even to this day, Jean’s name is occasionally mispronounced like Izumi’s is.

'Tokyo Ever After' has Jean connecting with her younger self and upbringing in a more direct way, as she shares many of Izzy’s struggles as an Asian-American growing up in a predominantly white town as well as Izumi’s cheeky humor. fiction contemporary romance young adult funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced Description The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After, the irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she. More: Bestselling, emerging authors offer variety to 2022 Savannah Book Festival

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