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If You Follow Me: A Fish-Out-of-Water Story with Dark Humor and Heart About a Year Abroad in Rural Japan (P.S.) - Softcover

Watrous, Malena

 
9780061732850: If You Follow Me: A Fish-Out-of-Water Story with Dark Humor and Heart About a Year Abroad in Rural Japan (P.S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061732850 ISBN 13: 9780061732850
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2010

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“I love, love, love If You Follow Me. It’s
fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can’t
recommend it highly enough.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling
author of Prep and American Wife

In Malena Watrous' beautifully
wrought and deftly written debut novel, we meet Marina, a young woman who has
come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. For
her, Shika is more than just her home as a “temporary person.” It’s also an
attempt to escape the reality that has followed her since her father committed
suicide only a year earlier.

Marina is a big city girl is in a
small town filled with off-beat characters, including an ambitious town
matchmaker, a dentist looking for free English lessons, a high school student who
idolizes Western rap artists, and finally Marina’s America-obsessed supervisor,
Hiro, a town leader whose friendship teaches her more than she ever expected.






If You Follow Me is
at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind
of love story that explores the tension of being the outsider in an intimate
community and the joy in finding that human nature is the same everywhere.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Malena Watrous's short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Triquarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and Kyoto Journal. The winner of the Michener-Copernicus Award, she lives in San Francisco.

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Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past . . . or anything else, for that matter.

If You Follow Me is at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. Alive with vibrant and unforgettable characters—from an ambitious town matchmaker to a high school student-cum-rap artist wannabe with an addiction to self-tanning lotion—it guides readers over cultural bridges even as it celebrates the awkward, unlikely triumph of the human spirit.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061732850
ISBN 13 
9780061732850
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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