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Emily Itami grew up in Tokyo and returned there to live when her children were young.
She now lives in London. She has been published widely as a freelance journalist and travel writer.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Emily Itami recommends
No Small Thing (2024)
Orlaine McDonald
"No Small Thing is sensuous and layered, wrapping me up so completely that closing the book felt like waking up. There is a terrible, compelling urgency throughout the narrative and I finished the book feeling at one devastated and hopeful."
You Can't Stay Here Forever (2023)
Katherine Lin
"I was totally drawn in from the first page of You Can't Stay Here Forever. All the contradictions of Ellie's situation as the American child of East Asian immigrants are explored with empathy and nuance, and the book's brilliantly observed, horribly recognizable moments are handled with the lightest of touches."
Wild Fires (2022)
Sophie Jai
"I enjoyed it so much - one of my favourite things in literature is to be transported to a different place, ideally straight into the heart of a family whose history and characters are as alive while I'm reading as my own, and that was the experience that Wild Fires gave me. It reminded me of The God of Small Things, with the same intricate, confounding but completely relatable family relationships, secrets and darkness; I loved the rhythm of the language and the sharpness of the (often unexpectedly funny) observations - a beautiful book."
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