Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo Sometimes, when Iâm staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when Iâm chanting, âSir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers!â I think I should have let my brother stab me . . . Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyoâs red light districtâteeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotelsâis almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Frankâs descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness. Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day, and losing herself at night in drugs, alcohol, and S&M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when sheâll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyoâs illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- World Literature
- Canadian
- World Literature
Publisher : Viking
Author : Hanrahan, Catherine
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2006-06-02
Number Of Pages : 224
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0670064440
ISBN-13 : 9780670064441
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 5.7 in x 8 in
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