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“These stories are a joy to read.”

Minae Mizumura, author of Inheritance from Mother

“A tour de force.”

Jim Nelson, author of Bridge Daughter

“I savored this beautiful book.”

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto, author of Midnight in Broad Daylight

“Rich and entertaining, the writing stops you in your tracks.”

Damian Flanagan, author of Yukio Mishima

"Moving and deep - and filled with surprise."

Jeff Raz, author of The Snow Clown

About the author

I have published short stories, essays and poetry in various journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Review, Foreign Literary Journal, Pakistan Express Tribune, the Bay Guardian and San Francisco Chronicle. I was a contributing writer at Japan Times, where I did essays and book reviews.

My new book is a volume of fiction: A Good Place to Leave a Lover. The stories feature Americans in Tokyo and Japanese people in San Francisco. No one is quite at home and has to navigate a new life. In short, it is espionage jazz.