If You Follow Me, (Paperback)

from AnneWK

**Disclaimer: I know the author. If You Follow Me is the story of 22-year-old Marina who graduates from college and heads off to Japan, with her new lesbian lover, to teach English. Marina is only beginning to deal with her father's recent suicide and what she discovers about herself -- and Japan...

from whitreidtan

Marina is twenty-two, living in rural Japan, and teaching English in a vocational university. She moved to Japan with her girlfriend Carolyn, in part to escape her grief over her father's suicide. But living in the midst of such a foreign culture, bottling her emotions up so tightly, and hiding t...

from killianmcrae

Marina is in her early 20's, in a new relationship with Carolyn, and at the start of a one-year ESL teaching obligation in a small city in Northwestern Japan. Recently graduated from college, Marina is also overcoming the loss of her father by suicide. She had met Carolyn in a grief group at coll...

from coolmama

Beautifully written first novel of Marina, just out of college, who decides to teach English in rural Japan with her girlfriend, Carolyn, just after her father has committed suicide. Well written with about the confusion over the archaic Japanese systems (esp. garbage) and the repression in the s...

from zibilee

When twenty-two year old Marina arrives in rural Japan to teach English, she brings along her girlfriend Carolyn and a tremendous amount of emotional baggage that she has been carrying since her father committed suicide. She soon comes to discover that living in rural Japan is a lesson in contrad...