Anthony Swofford follows his international best-seller
Jarhead with an unforgettable first novel -- a powerful
story about a youth spent on a U.S. air base in Japan and
the gritty neon streets just outside it, where the Japanese
underworld lurks and a rebellious young girl finds herself
in great danger........ Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx, an
earnest, muscular high-school-football star, lives on an
American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo. Severin
is mad for Virginia Kindwall, the base general's daughter,
who is a hafu -- half American and half Japanese. Beautiful,
smart, and utterly defiant of her father, Virginia has
become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground.Severin
is soon caught up in Virginia's world, and together they
drift through the mad neon landscape outside the walls of
the base, near the busy Haijima rail station, a place of
movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Exit A is one
of its many shadowy doorways. Severin and Virginia fall into
trouble way over their heads and are soon subjected to the
enormous, unforgiving tensions between America and Japan.
Years later, Severin and Virginia remain lost to each other,
until an emotionally frayed, thirty- something Severin
embarks on a quest to find Virginia -- and the part of
himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly
ended.Darkly irreverent, frankly erotic, at once suspenseful
and emotionally overwhelming, Swofford's Exit A builds
inexorably toward a climax as it audaciously plumbs the
legacies of war, the wish for redemption, and the danger of
love...
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