{"product_id":"antman-michael-cherry-whip-9781069096579","title":"Cherry Whip","description":"The poignant and hilarious tale of a Japanese musician's struggles with genius and illness in a vividly realized New York City.From the moment the deeply eccentric Hiroshi, a budding Japanese jazz genius, hits American ground, the ground starts hitting back with everything it's got -- just as he is to begin a high-profile gig that promises to make his career.Hiroshi's experiences in New York are exhilarating and humiliating, thrilling and traumatic in equal measure. As the quirky, disaster-prone, and language- and music-obsessed artist struggles to recover both emotionally and physically from a paralyzing illness that may render him unable to ever again play his clarinet, he must also cope with the long-distance betrayal of his beautiful girlfriend and with his sublimated guilt over his role in the death of his sister many years ago, at the dusty end of a mysterious route she called \"The Forbidden Pathway\" in the tiny country town in Japan where they grew up.This seriocomic novel, densely populated with quirky characters, is a love letter to New York City and to the English language. It also shines a spotlight on one fairly peculiar corner of the Japanese sensibility embodied in its hyperconscious but absentminded, sensual but abstracted, intelligent but terribly innocent hero, a Japanese Lucky Jim, who comes to terms with becoming an adult and respecting his gifts against the dual backgrounds of a mysterious pathway in Japan, which now exists only in his memory, and what he lovingly describes as \"the filthy charm of New York City,\" in the only too-real present day.","brand":"Donovan Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53753863668054,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/antman-michael-cherry-whip-9781069096579","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}