My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
by Rachel Cohn /
2018 / English / PDF
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Elle was living with her third foster family. Her mom had a drug addiction and was in jail and she had never known her father. Just that he was Japanese. Things were not going well in her new home or school. The family only let her shower once a week and the kids at school were mean to her because of it. One day her “uncle” came there with a passport and told her she was going to live with her father in Tokyo. He owns a hotel and lives in the penthouse there. Elle really wants to get to know him, but he works more than anything else. She is sent to an English speaking private school where she becomes with the popular kids. At first Elle thinks this is the best thing, but she realizes that she has more fun with a couple kids that are not in the Ex-Brats crowd. Everything is new for Elle and she is trying to fit in at school and at home. Her grandma doesn’t want her there and is very traditional in her beliefs. Her aunt isn’t much better.
Things start getting better for Elle and she feels like Tokyo might be home for her. And then everything goes wrong all at once and she might be sent back to the US.
I’m not going to get into all the other characters in the book, but I really like Akemi and Ryuu. Akemi was never popular, but Ryuu was and was iced out by the Ex-Brats. His father was also in criminal trouble, so Elle’s father didn’t want her associating with him. Everything was about appearances there.
