{"product_id":"lost-girls-and-love-hotels-9780060846848","title":"Lost Girls and Love Hotels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSometimes, when I'm staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when I'm chanting, \"Sir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers \" I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's red light district--teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotels--is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Frank's descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day, and losing herself at night in drugs, alcohol, and S\u0026amp;M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when she'll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyo's illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHanrahan, Catherine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eCatherine Hanrahan 's fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eZoetrope All-Story Extr\u003c\/em\u003ea and \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e. Born in Montreal, she has lived in Thailand, England, and Japan, where she worked as a bar hostess and English teacher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555920974098,"sku":"9780060846848","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b70f523-11ae-43c5-8420-7b3a99896c3b.jpg?v=1731744793","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-girls-and-love-hotels-9780060846848","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}