Country of Origin: A Novel
A dazzling debut novel by the prize-winning author of Yellow, set in the unique and exotic nightworld of Tokyo.
Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is...
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