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Turning Japanese: Expanded Edition

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By (author): MariNaomi

The year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year-old MariNaomi finds herself amidst a flurry of major life changes. Newly immersed in the pan-Asian diaspora of San Jose, California, half-Japanese Mari searches for connections to a culture that has so far eluded her.

It doesn't take long for Mari to find new love and a new job--at a hostess bar for Japanese expats--in a bid to learn the language and culture. Turning Japanese follows Mari from Northern California to Tokyo, Japan, as she tries to get by in an unfamiliar city with rudimentary language skills--all in the hopes of finally connecting with her Japanese relatives without the use of her mother as a translator. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 789g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Oni PressUS
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781637150948

About MariNaomi

MariNaomi (she/they) is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial 2011) Dragons Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books 2014) Turning Japanese (2dcloud 2016) I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics 2016) the Life on Earth trilogy (Graphic Universe 2018-2020) and Dirty Produce (Workman Publishing Nov. 2021). Their work has appeared in over eighty print publications and has been featured on websites such as The New Yorkers Daily Shouts The Rumpus LA Review of Books Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed and has been translated into French (Devenir Japonaise Editions IMHO Feb. 2021) and Russian. MariNaomis comics and paintings have been featured in the Smithsonian the de Young Museum the Cartoon Art Museum the Asian Art Museum and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011 and 2018 Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. They are the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color Database the Queer Cartoonists Database and the Disabled Cartoonists Database. They have taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program and was a guest editor for PEN Illustrated. They were cohost of the Ask Bi Grlz podcast with author Myriam Gurba. MariNaomi lives in Southern California with their spouse and a menagerie of rescue cats dogs and butterfly babies.

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