Book Review of Love in Translation by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Name of book: Love in translation Author Name: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga ISBN: 978-0-312-37266-8 Publisher: St Martin's Press Type of book: Adult, Japan, music, 2000s, abandoned, chick lit novel Year it was published: 2009 Summary: Stuck. That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew. Impulsively, Celeste flies to Japan to search for a long-lost relative who could be able to explain. She stumbles head first into a weird, wonderful world where nothing is quite as it seems—a land with an inexplicable fascination with foreigners, karaoke boxes, and unbearably perky TV stars. With little knowledge of Japanese, Celeste finds a friend in her English-speaking homestay brother, Takuya, and comes to depend on him for all variety of tran...