{"product_id":"2940169918960","title":"My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICSamp;mdash;the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble, they seek diplomatic immunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner, who, on her sixteenth birthday discovers that her long-lost father, Kenji Takahari, is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um, yes, please! Elle jets off first class from Washington, DC, to Tokyo, which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father, her way-too-fab aunt, and her hyper-critical grandmother, who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family, Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats, a troupe of uber-cool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu, who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family, her already tenuous living situation just might implode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life\u003c\/i\u003e is about learning what it is to be a family, and finding the inner strength to be yourself, even in the most extreme circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116972884208,"sku":"2940169918960","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169918960_p0.jpg?v=1769902933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169918960","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}