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SWEET DARUMAa Japan satire Magda is thrilled to leave her globalization-protesting boyfriend in Toronto and head to Tokyo to teach English conversation...or so she thinks. Upon her arrival she is whisked off to save the life of a suicidalMoreSWEET DARUMAa Japan satire Magda is thrilled to leave her globalization-protesting boyfriend in Toronto and head to Tokyo to teach English conversation...or so she thinks. Upon her arrival she is whisked off to save the life of a suicidal salaryman with the help of a strategic idiom. Magda has unwittingly joined the Anne of Grey Tokyo Emergency English Response Team, and she better brush up her vocabulary in a hurry, because the English emergencies keep coming. Suddenly caught up in the politics of English and pop culture in Japan, Magda soon realizes to expect the unexpected. Shes now the student--and Japan definitely has a lot to teach.From Orgasm Kabuki to troll girls in the pee trade, stackable Daruma apartments to a mute monkey named Kagemusha, Janice Valerie Young has written an irreverent send-up of the warped world of English conversation schools (and the zany international staff that fuel them) that is as imaginative and over-the-top as Tokyo itself. Strike up the chindonya, this girl can write!--Leza Lowitz, author of Green Tea to GoJanice Valerie Youngs absurdist satire of the turn-of-the-millennium Japanese pop culture and post-bubble society trots out an outrageous cast of characters, from Yakuza wannabes to Yamamba urine sellers and a particularly disgusting pet monkey...a melange not seen since Thomas Pynchons whole sick crew.--Hillel Wright, author of Rotary Sushi ******Review of Bankrupt, from Faces in the Crowds: a Tokyo International Anthology: Bankrupt, a short story by Janice Valerie Young that contains no references to Japan or Japan is a screamed, jazzy, nerve-jangling two-page riff on a broken marriage triggered when the husband complains that a hair of his wife, who feels herself to be the wronged party, has fallen into his spaghetti.--Mark Austin, The Daily YomiuriCover illustration by Wayne Wilson Sweet Daruma: A Japan Satire by Janice Valerie Young
