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Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives by Nao-Cola Yamazaki · Polly Barton
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781638932710
- Page Count
- 80
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- SJP Lit
Meet the Author
Nao-Cola YamazakiMeet the Author
Polly Barton
“Tender and prickly and consistently confounds expectation . . . the novel is deft and light as air. But it carries a streak of something stronger and sharper than melancholy, tracing a relationship that is at once moving and deeply fraught.” —from the foreword by Katie Kitamura, author of Audition
A love story that feels both new and achingly true from one of Japan’s most acclaimed writers, capturing the intensity, uncertainties, and intimacy of falling for someone for the first time.
Art student Isogai first models for one of his tutors, the much older Yuri, then begins a passionate affair with her. As he gets to know her better, he struggles to understand his own emotions and place in the world, just as he yearns to be closer to her and for her to share more of herself with him.
A touching portrait of late adolescence, and with Isogai captured with exasperation, humor, and tenderness, Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives is above all else an exploration of the exhilarating and destabilizing experience of a first love that defies prediction or explanation.
A love story that feels both new and achingly true from one of Japan’s most acclaimed writers, capturing the intensity, uncertainties, and intimacy of falling for someone for the first time.
Art student Isogai first models for one of his tutors, the much older Yuri, then begins a passionate affair with her. As he gets to know her better, he struggles to understand his own emotions and place in the world, just as he yearns to be closer to her and for her to share more of herself with him.
A touching portrait of late adolescence, and with Isogai captured with exasperation, humor, and tenderness, Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives is above all else an exploration of the exhilarating and destabilizing experience of a first love that defies prediction or explanation.
Praise for Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives
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““An evocative and wonderfully earnest slice of life . . . This is a writer who pays close attention to the sensations of living, who knows how to put you not just in the mind of the character but the body too. Reading Nao-Cola Yamazaki is like experiencing the world anew.”
Katie Yee, author of Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar -
“Told with wry distance, this story makes an age-old tale feel new, with a narrator so afraid of emotional vulnerability that he is completely undone by the force of his own feelings. Funny, surprising, and hopeful, this novella is a poignant encapsulation of a complicated first love.”
Lillian Li, Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Number One Chinese Restaurant -
“First love is perfectly imperfect, and Yamazaki renders it here with all the charm and respect that it deserves. This is for anyone who has ever loved another, from near or far—a story full of nostalgia and beauty and hope.”
Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit
Press for Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives
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