Trisha Ready’s groundbreaking debut novel tells the story of a young American English teacher in the 1980s who travels to Japan. There she falls in love with a woman named Nobuko, who lives in a rustic cabin and makes teeth. Subplots involve the yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate — as well as food, art, adventure, samurai swords, and various kinds of love. In Nobuko, Ready has invented a structure that blends fiction with memoir and prose poetry in the “Ready Sequence,” 108 chapters, and each chapter is no more than 150 words. “
Designed by Corianton Hale, art director of FrizzLit Editions, with illustrations by Lan Truong, Nobuko is currently availbie in an extremely limited and numbered edition.
Trisha Ready’s groundbreaking debut novel tells the story of a young American English teacher in the 1980s who travels to Japan. There she falls in love with a woman named Nobuko, who lives in a rustic cabin and makes teeth. Subplots involve the yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate — as well as food, art, adventure, samurai swords, and various kinds of love. In Nobuko, Ready has invented a structure that blends fiction with memoir and prose poetry in the “Ready Sequence,” 108 chapters, and each chapter is no more than 150 words. “
Designed by Corianton Hale, art director of FrizzLit Editions, with illustrations by Lan Truong, Nobuko is currently availbie in an extremely limited and numbered edition.
