![]() ![]() ![]() Despite all of this, Marina maintains her dry and biting style with commentary that is captivating and engaging. ![]() With her confusion with the Japanese gomi (garbage) laws to the growing tensions with her girlfriend, Carolyn, and her budding friendship with her supervisor, Hiroshi Miyoshi, Marina’s immediate issues continues to feed her isolation along with her distress over her father’s suicide. Marina’s job brings in a host of local Japanese characters, fellow teachers who seek out lessons from her as well as the students who study her as though she were an art project.Īll the while, the center of Marina’s story is isolation, a feeling that Malena Watrous captures poignantly in her debut novel, If You Follow Me (Harper Perennial). The journey of Marina, a 22-year-old woman teaching English in rural Japan, resembles sweeping waves that call back to her namesake, where she is pushed and pulled into the foreign waters that are Japan and its strict codes of social conduct. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |