Solo Dance

<p><b>A powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation.</b></p><p>Cho Norie twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy life-insurance policies marriage and children she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden-including her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There is also her unusual fascination with death: she knows from personal experience how devastating death can be but for her it is also creative fuel. <i>Solo Dance</i> depicts the painful coming of age of a gay person in Taiwan and corporate Japan. This striking debut is an intimate and powerful account of a search for hope after trauma.</p>