About
As a multiple immigrant, I tend to look at things from the third space—a space in between, without tribe.
Immigrants learn to read rooms like a spy and must figure things out for themselves. They adapt and evolve and improvise: stay light on their little feet. That’s why my style is called espionage jazz.
As an author in the third space, I’m interested in how culture shapes people. The ways in which we act and think; the ways in which we charm and madden.
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.
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 next project is finishing a novel that features my father, disguised as one of the characters. He passed away a long time ago, so I made him a character in the novel: a mysterious doctor in Vienna.
My father would have enjoyed being seen as mysterious. And this way I can spend some more time with him.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy “A Good Place to Leave a Lover.” I’m very happy with how it turned out.
