From Little Tokyo with Love

<b>One of <i>People </i>magazine's Best Books of Summer! <p/>Evocatively written and beautiful in its rage <i>From Little Tokyo with Love</i> is one to treasure. --Helen Hoang <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>The Kiss Quotient</i> <p/>Celebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart.</b> <p/>At first glance Rika's life might seem like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--after all she's an orphan with two bossy cousins a demanding job in the family business and an ever-present feeling that she doesn't quite belong. But as a biracial girl with formidable judo skills and a firey temper Rika knows she is the least princess-like person in all of LA.<br>So when a series of tantalizing clues spread out over her Little Tokyo neighborhood seem to point her to her mother being alive Rika has to take a leap of faith (accompanied by cute actor Hank Chen) that a girl like her might deserve happiness too. But as their madcap quest brings her closer to the truth--and closer to Hank--her doubts and insecurities threaten to destroy everything. In the sudden fairy tale that's taken over her life Rika must decide if she's destined for tragedy . . . or brave enough to write her own happy ending.