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Amiko Jean is the author of Tokyo Ever After. When Amiko is not writing, she's reading. Most of her friends are imaginary.

Before she became a writer, she was an entomologist, which is a fancy name for bug catcher,

a candle maker, a florist, and most recently a teacher. She lives in Washington with her

husband and children who are unruly twins. She lives in Washington with her husband and children

who are unruly twins. She is also the author of Empress of All Seasons and will never be a part.

Welcome, Emmy. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss Tokyo

ever after. Thank you so much for having me. I had a feeling I was going to really enjoy this

conversation because your book

was funny and engaging and entertaining and I really enjoyed it. And I always know that like

those are going to be nice conversations. Sometimes I'm wrong, but usually. Yeah, I think I really

wanted to write a fun story that felt really lighthearted.

I had twins three and a half years ago, and so I started writing this when they were, they were about a year old.

And I just, I wanted to write something that felt joyful and that had a lot of heart and humor in it.

I cannot believe, as we were just discussing, that I'm also a twin mom.

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