{"product_id":"kakigori-summer","title":"Kakigori Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another - but life has taken them on very different paths. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEldest 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 retirement home she works in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe free-spirited youngest, Ai , 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 thrust into the spotlight, Rei must pick up the pieces of her family once more. Over the course of a summer in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters reunite with their sharp-tongued grandmother, entertain Kiki's irrepressible son and silently worry about Ai, carefully avoiding the subject of their mother's death fifteen years before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut silence between sisters can only last for so long . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTransporting, funny and moving, Kakigori Summer is an uplifting exploration of love and loss, sisterhood and family, the stories we tell ourselves about the past and how they determine our future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Itami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55800660689283,"sku":"9781474620314","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/kakigorisummer.png?v=1779875582","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/kakigori-summer","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}