If You Follow Me - Watrous, Malena
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.