Lost Girls and Love Hotels: A Novel

ISBN: 0060846844

Author: Hanrahan, Catherine

Condition: New

Now a feature film starring Alexandra DaddarioAn achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary TokyoSometimes, when Im 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 Im chanting, Sir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers! I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyos red light district-teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotels-is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Franks descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness.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 shell take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyos illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .