Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR A wry and tender novel from the author of Fault Lines
about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer in coastal Japan
navigating domestic life with their sharp-edged grandmother and decidedly avoiding resurfaced
memories of their mother's disappearance--for readers of Hello Beautiful and Blue Sisters.
"This novel had me hooked from the first chapter. Three sisters Japan the complexities of
family bonds love and loss. I got totally immersed in their lives. It's funny and insightful
and poignant and uplifting . . . And a rare accolade—the most excellent and satisfying ending!"
--Karen Angelico author of Everything We Are Rei Kiki and Ai are half-Japanese
half-British sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in
London Kiki is the single mother of a young son working in a retirement home in Tokyo and Ai
the youngest is a peripatetic Japanese music idol. Bonded by the loss of their parents and
their shared haafu identity the sisters rely on each other as family far-flung as they are.
When Ai is embroiled in a scandal Rei and Kiki pause their own lives to rescue their baby
sister. Over the course of a summer spent in their childhood home on the Japanese coast the
sisters will reunite with their sharp-edged grandmother care for Kiki’s irrepressible son and
silently worry about Ai all while carefully not talking about the circumstances of their
mother’s death fifteen years before. But silence between sisters can only last for so long… A
transporting and redemptive novel Kakigori Summer is a hopeful meditation on love and loss
sisterhood and family and a profound exploration of the stories we tell ourselves about our
past that enable us to move forward into the future.
