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If You Follow Me
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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2010-03-15
Publication Date:
2010-03-09
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0061732850
ISBN13:
9780061732850
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
483 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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