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Books The Best Novel I've Read in 2010
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM
Subtitled A Ghost Story, M. Thomas Gammarino's Big in Japan is just the kind of debut novel that shouldn't work. It's about a group of young men in a struggling rock-and-roll band (sigh) who travel to Japan, where they are famous (yawn), to play shows, drink and drug it up, and have sex with lots of Japanese women (snore). But just about every time you expect something clichéd to happen, Gammarino pushes the story down a dark alley you didn't notice a moment before.
Big in Japan is the second novel I've read from local publisher Chin Music Press (which refers to itself as "Seattle's antidote to the Kindle"). Both were of better-than-usual quality. If you like literary fiction, you should keep an eye on these guys.
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