When the book begins, 35-year-old Japanese American Mika is trying to figure out who she is. That’s really where Mika started-this desire to tell a story about mothers, but try to drill it down into universal experiences.” “I was terrified of how much I loved these babies, and so how could I deal with that? How could I process it? I used the page. “I think this is a universal experience for most mothers,” says Jean, 40, who channeled her feelings about having her twins, who are now four and a half, into the book. The message on the sweatshirt, she points out, is appropriate because her new book, Mika in Real Life (Morrow, Aug.), is about love-particularly the variety between mothers and daughters. It’s early in the morning in Vancouver, Wash., but Emiko Jean is speaking cheerfully via Zoom and sipping from a mug, wearing a cream-colored sweatshirt with the word love written on it in black.
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