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Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
One phone call changes everything. At 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. Mika 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, successful in love and her career. The 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,