Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

• Oct-2000
• / Romance
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What happens when everyone around you is blissfully popping babies like so many rabbits, your mother wants a grandchild more than anything else in the world, but you're just not interested? Meet Audrey Mills, a 35-year-old Silicon Valley techie who h...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Midori Saito's dream seems about to come true. Too independent for Japanese society, Midori is a young woman who has always felt like a stranger in her native land. So when she falls in love with Kevin, an American English teacher, she readily agrees...

• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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Stuck. That's how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue t...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar hos...

• Feb-2026
• / General Fiction
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At sixty-four, Brenda Barker's life is anything but over-though someone should tell that to her butcher, who insists on calling her ma'am when the other customers are miss. With her husband gone, her only child moving to Japan, and a literary expert ...