A Good Place to Leave a Lover

<p class=ql-align-justify>...<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>sensual subversive and masterful. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-Pamela Rotner Sakamoto author </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A tour de force. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Jim Nelson author </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>...<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the collection is precise and colorful... </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Damian Flanagan author</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An American woman in Tokyo is planning to leave her lover when a tragedy strikes the nation. In a lounge in the Ginza district an expat pianist wonders if a room in the back helps desperate men start new lives. A Japanese woman in San Francisco is searching for a consulate staff member who has vanished with a suitcase full of passports.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set in Tokyo and San Francisco these stories are colorful postcards reporting from cultural intersections. A medley of voices and fresh takes on the expat experience these intimately detailed portraits show American and Japanese characters enchanted with intercultural love while also facing the history they share. A long-time resident of Tokyo Gattig writes with a light witty touch and supple poetic prose </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>showing </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>how we need others to understand ourselves in the world.</span></p>