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Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives packed with inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run - try to escape from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the far side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The earth is packed with cowards. Tim Anderson was forcing 30 and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to load up his handbags and proceed to Japan. It was a gutsy move, specifically for a extra tall, white, homosexual Southerner who didn't speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a go of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind his boyfriend, his kitten, and his Siouxsie and the Banshees container set to move to "a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with ingenious, sensibly proportioned people who make him look fat"? In Tokyo, Tim became a "gaijin", an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these 16 hilarious stories. Despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly regular humiliation, the gaijin from NEW YORK gradually commences to find his way. Whether participating in drums on the take flight in an otherwise all-Japanese noise music group or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it's invaded by an older female scholar with a grubby mind, Tim comes to realize that living a important life is approximately expecting the surprising...right when he least desires it.
