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Nobody 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.
When 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.
A short, blistering gut punch of a novel,
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.
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