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I just got the following review back from Booklist.  Yay!

Issue: February 15, 2008

Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess.

Twenty-first-century Tokyo has two personalities that are—quite literally—day and night. From dawn to dusk, hardworking urbanites go about their jobs with soldier-like conformity. At darkness, many enter ukiyo, or a “floating world,” a place pregnant with ephemeral pleasures. It is the latter that lured Jacobson, a beautiful, blonde American twentysomething fascinated by Japanese culture and lore. Fired from her job teaching English in Japan, Jacobson became a nightclub hostess, a modern offshoot of the geisha tradition, in which lovely young women are paid to charm and flirt with wealthy middle-aged men. As a hostess, Jacobson learned to quell her sharp tongue and coddle and coo her clients, some of whom weren’t so different from the two-and three-year-olds she had taught. “Both,” she writes, “occasionally made attempts to grab at my breasts.” While the job of hostess paid well and had plenty of perks, the nonstop drinking and partying nearly pushed Jacobson over the edge. Readers who enjoyed Muller’s lively Japanland (2005) will appreciate this endlessly candid and engaging true tale.       

— Allison Block

Comments

[slightlytilted]

That's awesome! Nice job~ ^_^

[Ashi]

Congrats on another good review =) I'll be sure to be on the lookout for it in Osaka. If I did buy it there, would all the text be translated into Japanese though or would it still be in English?

[lea]

thanks foot. the book's not being translated into japanese yet. only polish and hebrew rights have sold so far. how random.