Atomweight

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator. When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable “good girl” discovers she’s a fighter. But who is she trying to beat?
Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done what her loving but demanding multiracial family expects. Far from her Vancouver home, she adjusts to life in London­—studies, friends and a relationship with a wealthy but closeted Asian woman.
Life is demanding, but Aki is coping until a violent incident triggers an unexpected response in the young Japanese-Latina-Canadian woman. When she discovers that brutal bar-fighting relieves her stress, she begins a dangerous dual existence—obedient and accommodating by day, and brawling by night.
Her parents struggle to come to terms with the discovery of their daughter’s sexuality, although her beloved, very different brother supports her. But how would he and her friends react if they knew of her violent, secret life as an “atomweight” fighter?
This is a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures, traditions and values that also explores issues of sexual identity and violence.