The Lonesome Bodybuilder, by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda [in Booklist]
21 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
Yukiko Motoya – who’s won major literary awards in her native Japan – makes her English-language debut (Anglophone-enabled by Asa Yoneda) with a label-defying, eyebrow-raising, beguilingly entertaining collection. Six narrators – Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Paul Michael Garcia, Tanya Eby, and Kate Mulligan...