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From Little Tokyo, With Love

Rika doesn’t believe in happy endings, but a chance encounter with a movie star during a parade in Little Tokyo may change her perspective—and her life.

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Review of ‘From Little Tokyo, With Love’

Rika Rakuyama loves Little Tokyo, from its ramen shops and beautiful old trees to the neon signs that cast “a wild rainbow glow” upon the street. Her appreciation for her Los Angeles neighborhood, which is marvelously rendered in Sarah Kuhn’s From Little Tokyo, With Love, is deep and abiding—even though Rika often feels unwelcome there.

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