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IN APPROPRIATE:  
A novel of culture, kidnapping, and revenge in modern Japan

 
BY ARUDOU DEBITO


AVAILABLE IN PRINT AND DOWNLOADABLE EBOOK, AMAZON KINDLE, BARNES & NOBLE NOOK, AND IBOOKS.

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PLOT SYNOPSIS

Gary Schmidt, a small-town American boy, meets a Japanese girl in college and follows her to Japan to start a family.  Little does he know that her conservative Japanese clan has hidden agendas and secret intentions.  Gary eventually realizes that he must escape their clutches – and convince his family to do the same before it's too late!  

More plot synopsis for Debito.org Readers:
IN APPROPRIATE is a book about child abductions in Japan, where after a divorce, a non-Japanese man comes back to Japan to retrieve his children back to America.  Although a work of fiction, it is an amalgam of several true stories of divorce and Left-Behind Parents in Japan.  

Debito adds:  "
IN APPROPRIATE is about more than just divorce:  I wanted to describe how a person would find fascination in Japan and Japanese people, come over during Japan's Bubble Era to see Japan ripe with opportunity, and find how Japan went sour as an economy over the past two decades.  It was wonderful to recount as a Bubble-Era veteran -- when in the late 1980's Japan looked poised to take over the world, and even challenge notions of how capitalism works -- and see how, step-by-step, Japanese society would be squeezed and squeezed, convinced that recovery was right around the corner just like Godot.  How a person could assimilate himself to the point of founding his own company, becoming bilingual in Japanese, even taking Japanese citizenship, yet be blindsided by events that were nearly always beyond his control.  IN APPROPRIATE is also a time capsule charting Japan's descent into mediocrity and comparative international irrelevance."

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Complimentary copy now available at the Foreign Correspondents' Club Library (FCCJ) in Tokyo.

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BOOK SPECS
"IN APPROPRIATE:  A novel of culture, kidnapping, and revenge in Japan"

ISBN for paperback version: 978-1-257-02640-1 
ISBN for ebook: 978-1-257-02648-7
Author: ARUDOU Debito
Language: English
Publisher: Lulu Enterprises Inc., New York
Date of Publication:  March 15, 2011
Length: 149 pages
Price: USD$10.00 (downloadable eBook), USD$14.00 (paperback, plus postage)
Anchor site at publisher:  http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arudoudebito


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(NB:  The author suggests that readers who are not aesthetically wedded to paper-bound books consider downloading electronic versions online.  It's far cheaper, more ecologically friendly, and you get a copy within minutes.  This is the future of publishing.  Give it a try.)

If you would like to order a copy of IN APPROPRIATE, you have several options:

1) PAPERBACK VERSION FROM AMAZON.COM, BARNES AND NOBLE, and other online stores (at USD$14.00, sometimes less, sometimes including postage.)
AVAILABLE NOW.
Buy from Amazon.com by clicking this link. Or from Barnes and Noble by clicking this link.
Also on sale at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon Canada (as well as all other nationalities of Amazon).
Save shipping costs if you're in Japan!  Buy from Amazon Japan.

2) PAPERBACK VERSION FROM PUBLISHER (at USD$14.00 plus postage)
AVAILABLE NOW.  Lulu.com has a site devoted to this book, from which you can order immediately as a print on demand paperbound copy (more ecologically sound than traditional first-run printing systems, with no stocks to take care of).  The author gets more of the proceeds this way, too.  Click below to purchase:

3) ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD FROM AMAZON.COM WORLDWIDE IN KINDLE FORMAT (at USD$9.99)

4) ELECTRONIC DOWNLOAD FROM BARNES&NOBLE.COM IN NOOK FORMAT (at USD$10.00)
This should be downloadable at major online retailers (it takes a while for it to be listed) by now for reading on your iPad, Kindle, etc. If you see it come online, please let me know!

5) REGULAR BOOKSTORES (at prices they assess).  
The paperback book has an ISBN (978-1-257-02640-1), so it can be ordered from any brick-and-mortar bookstore.  Take the number to the clerk and put it on order.


 
I hope you enjoy my novel IN APPROPRIATE.
I enjoyed writing my first fiction work.

If you like it, please consider recommending it to others.  
Your support will enable me to write more novels and continue on in this direction.
ARUDOU Debito
(debito@debito.org)

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