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December 2011
On Sale: November 29, 2011
292 pages
ISBN: 1612181317
EAN: 9781612181318
Kindle: B0050KIRE6
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full
of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the
bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly
seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world
where they don't understand anything and won't be expected
to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing
thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made
the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan,
“where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying
‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a
liability.” It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall,
white, gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and
what better way to get one than to leave behind everything
he had ever known to move to “a tiny, overcrowded island
heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned people that make
him look fat?” In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider
whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is
minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny
stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the
seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North
Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing
drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or
attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s
invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim
comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about
expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it.
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