Her striking eyelids, the result of a botched cosmetic surgery, and her no-nonsense presence make her an obsession-and port in a storm-for a young, fatherless boy who is struggling to come of age. Ice Sandwich works at the sandwich counter in a supermarket. And then when she looks straight at me, she has these enormous eyes which are so big I feel like I get swallowed up in them. There’s one more awesome thing about her-if you watch when she looks down, there’s a sharp dark line above her eyes, as if when she closed her eyes, someone started to draw on two extra eyes with a felt-tip pen but stopped halfway. Ms Ice Sandwich’s eyelids are always painted with a thick layer of a kind of electric blue, exactly the same colour as those hard ice lollies that have been sitting in our freezer since last summer. “Ms Ice Sandwich” is a name I made up of course, I thought of it the minute I first saw her. Why? This slim import from the U.K.’s Pushkin Press, released Stateside by Penguin Random House, features a fourth-grade boy as main character and vocabulary accessible to upper elementary readers. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, works as adult, young adult, AND middle grade reading. It does not store any personal data.What? A fiction title for grown-ups on #WorldKidLit Wednesday? Yes, Ms.

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