After all the city's festivities finally ending, JSNO Kwaidan Book Club will be meeting in March to discuss the comic book Confessions of a Texan in Tokyo by Grace Buchele Mineta. We have read manga in book club before, but never a comic cook. This is no ordinary comic book either. It's an unique glimpse into the life of a Texas woman who lives in Japan with her Japanese husband. Readers will get to learn about Japanese culture from her stories and even get a good laugh or two.
This event will be online via the JSNO Discord in the Kwaidan Book Club voice channel, follow the link: https://discord.gg/tBtmSWe.
(Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers").
*Please help support Tubby & Coo's Mid-City Book Shop (local New Orleans bookstore) by ordering your copy from their affiliate Bookshop site: https://bookshop.org/a/55/9780990773610.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
It's not easy squeezing your life into a suitcase and hopping on a plane halfway across the world. Then again, the most meaningful things in life are never easy. In this hilarious comic book, Grace weaves fact and fiction - to create an authentic window into the life of an American living in Tokyo. Joined by her husband, Ryosuke, and their imaginary pet rabbit, Marvin, watch as this young couple tries to carve out a little slice of "home" deep in the concrete jungle of Tokyo, without going crazy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Grace Buchele Mineta was born and raised in Texas, before moving to Ghana (and later Japan) in her teenage years. She lives in Tokyo with her husband, where she writes and blogs about interracial and intercultural relationships, daily life in Japan, and the life of a freelancer abroad on her blog, "Texan in Tokyo." In her spare time, she writes and illustrates comic books about her daily life in Tokyo. She is the author of three books, "My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy," "My Japanese Husband (still) Thinks I'm Crazy," and "Confessions of a Texan in Tokyo." Grace graduated from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and spent one year in Tokyo under the Boren Scholarship.
*Book and Author information found on Bookshop.
