I am Catherine Hanrahan, the author of "Lost Girls and Love hotels" a novel published by Harper Perennial US, Penguin Canada and forthcoming from Scribner in the UK.,Here's what the novel is about:
C.M. Hanrahan's Lost Girls and Love Hotels paints a poignant picture of loneliness and redemption in one of the world's most culturally rich cities. Escaping from her troubled family life in Canada, Margaret has fled to Tokyo, where a mind-numbing job leads her to train conformist stewardesses to speak perfect English.During her chaotic nightly alcohol- and drug-induced stupor, she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl who is missing in Tokyo. Along with her affair with a mysterious gangster and flashbacks of her painful childhood, Margaret could be headed for tragedy amid the bustling background of Japan's neon nightlife and anonymous love hotels.Here's what people have to say about LOST GIRLS AND LOVE HOTELS:
"'Sometimes, 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. I shouldn't have run when Frank came at me with the carving knife, yelling 'Satan! Satan!' I should have faced him, arms outstretched, eyes closed in sacrifice, and let him put the blade into me."As if that opening were not enough to wrest the mind and rattle the heart, Catherine Hanrahan inserts multiple orgasms into her second paragraph -- and spirited use of the "f" and "s" words to boot. Set in a Tokyo that pinballs between funhouse and purgatory, this ambitious first novel may blow a few of the book-and-brunch set out of their orientalist armchairs."-The Globe and Mail“Catherine Hanrahan gives readers a world few have seen before and even fewer will forget.  This smart and bold debut hums with neon, buzzes with pills, dashes madly through the Tokyo streets.  Funny, eerie, and beautiful, Lost Girls & Love Hotels absolutely mesmerizes.â€-Amanda Boyden, author of Pretty Little Dirty"This insider view of high-end Japanese youth culture is wicked and unsparing."-Kirkus Review (starred review)
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