TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tagame,Gengoroh
AU  - Ishii,Anne
TI  - My brother's husband
SN  - 9781101871515 (v. 1 : hardback)
AV  - PN6790.J33 T255613 2017
U1  - 741.5/952 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Japan
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - FICTION / Family Life
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
KW  - COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga / Gay & Lesbian
KW  - Asian lives
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - "Originally published as Otouto no Otto by Futabasha Publishers Ltd., Tokyo, in 2014"--Title page verso
N2  - "From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented, revelatory look at and journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it"--
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