Slow Boat Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. The night the sisters turn

The night the sisters turn sixteen

James is a lawyer

There I travel

and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar

' David Henry Hwang

Slow Boat Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. The night the sisters turnA startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a passive loser, content to accept all that fate hands him. He attempts one last escape to the edges of the city, holding the only safety net he has known his dreams. Filled with lyrical longing