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Tokyo Woes : A Novel by Bruce Jay Friedman; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tokyo Woes : A Novel about?

In this laugh-out-loud travelogue, an average American man journeys to a country unlike any other: 1980s Japan Early one morning, Mike Halsey leaves his sleeping girlfriend and his house deep in the woods to go out and buy the morning paper. His favorite deli is closed, so he keeps driving and winds up on an unfamiliar lakeside road. Then it hits him: the old wanderlust. The last time it struck, he ended up on the coast of Finland. This time, Mike heads east{u2014}to Japan. He doesn{u2019}t like sushi all that much and has no idea what he{u2019}ll do when he arrives. Luckily, he makes a new friend on the plane. Bill Atenabe invites Mike to stay with his family in Tokyo{u2014}?We{u2019}ve got plenty of room by Japanese standards,? he claims{u2014}and the two pals are soon sampling all that makes the Land of the Rising Sun unique, from Peeping Tom tours to department store attendants who dust you off before you step into an elevator to computers with a sense of irony. Mike quickly discovers, however, that not all is as happy as it seems in the Atenabe household. Bill{u2019}s wife is having an affair with a bamboo salesman, his son wants to give up a promising academic career to becom

Who reads Tokyo Woes : A Novel?

Author

Bruce Jay Friedman; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504019569

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24