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Red Sky, Red Dragonfly by John Galligan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Red Sky, Red Dragonfly about?
"In the hours before his sayonara party, a handsome young American vanishes from the Japanese village where he has been the first-ever foreign English teacher. The first result is a throng of disappointed women. But when Stuart Norton fails to show up back home in Utah, or anywhere else, his disappearance quickly becomes more ominous. Something bad has happened to the town's first and only foreign teacher. The town is Kitayama, a beleaguered old castle town in the northern snow country. Stuart's disappearance threatens the Kitayama International Business Plan, and loyal town fathers scramble to squelch the mystery and preserve their tenuous grasp on modernization. Thus Stuart's problems in Kitayama are effectively hidden, leaving it to the next teacher, grizzled Tommy Morrison, to grope his way to the truth. A refugee from a shattered inter-racial marriage and a fizzled pro hockey career, Tommy MacArthur can feel the young man's torment. He is also rebellious enough to defy town fathers and explore the fate of his countryman. As his own teenage son becomes a runaway in the United States, Tommy latches on to Stuart's case and sees it through to its heartbreaking conclusion. Tommy ma
Who reads Red Sky, Red Dragonfly?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Galligan
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781440533990
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.36 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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