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Tokyo Ever After

A Novel

Tokyo Ever After: Book #1

By: Emiko Jean
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

#14 in Bestselling Asian-American Voices Audiobooks

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“I love Izumi's group of friends, her inner voice as she treads the overwhelming news that she's a modern princess; her budding romance with her handsome bodyguard and their secret courtship; her honesty in the face of desperately wanting a relationship with her new father. Her highs and lows changed my moods, her spirit buoyed me. Ali Ahn is fantastic as each character; introducing us to the two worlds of our heroine's life. Izumi's unique American perspective lends depth and love to this familiar plot.”
Charity, Schuler Books

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“The Princess Diaries meets the Amanda Bynes movie What a Girl Wants in this delightful YA rom com set primarily in Tokyo, Japan. Izumi is such a wonderful character who acts just as you would expect a teenager to when being thrown into royalty for the first time, in a new country, while also trying to cultivate a relationship with your long-lost father....and possibly your super cute bodyguard.”
Colleen, An Unlikely Story

"Narrator Ali Ahn gives this young adult rom-com fun doses of personality and sass...Ahn's accents and Japanese pronunciations ring true as she clearly differentiates characters of different ages and nationalities." -- AudioFile Magazine

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The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After, a “refreshing, spot-on” (Booklist, starred review) 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 fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi—or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”—and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity…and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess.

In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight.

Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself—back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairy tale, happily ever after?

Look for the sequel to Tokyo Ever After in 2022!

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