{"product_id":"jackson-alone-jose-ando-translation-by-kalau-almony","title":"Jackson Alone \/\/\/ Jose Ando, translation by Kalau Almony \/\/\/ new","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour Black Japanese gay men team up against a culture where discrimination is deep-seated and revenge is just a click away. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize–winning author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist Jackson—but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He’s mixed race—half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he’s not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan: find out who’s responsible and, in the meantime, switch identities and play tricks on people—a boyfriend, a boss—who’ve wronged them, exploiting the fact that nobody can seem to tell them apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA short, blistering gut punch of a novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJackson Alone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender—a frank exploration of identity, race, queerness, and discrimination in contemporary Japan that announces Jose Ando as a singular new talent in the global literary scene.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJose Ando\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born and raised in Tokyo, and is of African-Asian heritage. 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Investigating queerness, Blackness, and difference in a vibrant, ever-shifting Tokyo, Ando’s novel blends buddy-comedy, whodunit, and cultural excavation into a story about the many different ways we belong (and don’t). I’ve never read anything like Ando’s prose—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJackson Alone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e transcends the form.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- Bryan Washington, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalaver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I read every page completely unable to predict what happens next. 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