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03030aam a22004575 4500 001 51F4F9E4AC6111EEB8E173B432ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240106010032 008 230907s2023 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780063215689 020 $a 0063215683 020 $a 9780063215696 : PAP 020 $a 0063215691 : PAP 035 $a (OCoLC)1337056078 040 $a NjBwBT $d SILO 050 $a PS 082 $a 813 100 $a Jean, Emiko 245 00 $a Mika in real life : $b a novel $c Emiko Jean. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c 2023 300 $a 370 p. ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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, 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? 520 $a Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, thirty -five-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her. 650 $a Adoptees $x Fiction. 650 $a Deception $x Fiction. 650 $a Domestic fiction. 650 $a Family secrets $x Fiction. 650 $a Humorous stories. 650 $a Japanese Americans $x Fiction. 650 $a Motherhood $x Fiction. 650 $a Motherhood. 650 $a Mothers and daughters $x Fiction. 650 $a Romance fiction. 650 $a Widowers $x Fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20240411010232.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409042750.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024050.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20240106011043.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51F4F9E4AC6111EEB8E173B432ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search