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Lost Girls and Love Hotels - by Catherine Hanrahan (Paperback)

Lost Girls and Love Hotels - by  Catherine Hanrahan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Margaret is doing everything to forget home, and Tokyo's nightlife teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels enables her to keep her demons at bay. An affair with a mysterious gangster could spell tragedy for her in a city where it's all too easy to disappear.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario </strong></p><p>An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo</p> <p>Sometimes, when I'm staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when I'm chanting, "Sir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers!" I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .</p><p>Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's red light district--teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotels--is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Frank's descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness. </p><p> Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day, and losing herself at night in drugs, alcohol, and S&M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when she'll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyo's illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's exotic nightlife -- teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels -- enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute by day, and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night, Margaret represses memories of her painful childhood and her older brother Frank's descent into madness.</p><p>But Margaret's deliberate nihilism is thrown off balance as she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo. And when she becomes enamored of Kazu, a mysterious gangster, their affair sparks a chain of events that could spell tragedy for Margaret, in a city where it's all too easy to disappear.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Catherine Hanrahan's first novel, Lost Girls And Love Hotels, shows huge potential."--Now Magazine (Canada)<br><br>"Edgy, hip... This insider view of high-end Japanese youth culture is wicked and unsparing."--Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW<br><br>"Hanrahan presents a Tokyo far from cherry blossoms and Zen temples...an admirable debut, sharp as a samurai's sword."--Calgary Herald<br><br>"Lost Girls and Love Hotels could almost be read as an alternative travel guide."--Quill & Quire<br><br>"This ambitious first novel may blow a few of the book-and-brunch set out of their orientalist armchairs..."--Toronto Globe and Mail<br>

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