EAST IS EAST
T.C. Boyle
Penguin Books
Fiction
ISBN: 0140131671

Hiro Tanaka, a Japanese seaman falls out with his crew and shortly afterward takes a dive overboard somewhere off the coast of Georgia. He finds himself washed ashore on remote Tupelo Island where he becomes a kind of celebrity fugitive, lurking in the swamps and feeding on whatever scraps of food come his way. The island is also occupied by a community of writers --- and would-be writers. The book manages to be, at once, sexy, tragic, and hilarious.

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