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Availability:In StockContributor:Malena WatrousSeries:P.S.Publish date:2010-03-09Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061732850ISBN-10:61732850UPC:9780061732850Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorAward:2010 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction Award|2011 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction AwardSize:7.98 x 5.84 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC47MRFFBN

"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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061732850ISBN-10:61732850UPC:9780061732850Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Women, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorAward:2010 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction Award|2011 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction AwardSize:7.98 x 5.84 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC47MRFFBN
Watrous, Malena: -

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.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Awards

🏆 2010 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction Award|2011 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Fiction Award

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Malena Watrous

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