My brother's husband / Gengoroh Tagame ; translated from the Japanese by Anne Ishii.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2017.Edition: First American editionDescription: 704 p. 19 cmISBN:
  • 9781101871515 (v. 1 : hardback)
  • 9781101871539 (v. 2 : hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Otouto no Otto. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: My brother's husbandDDC classification:
  • 741.5/952 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6790.J33 T255613 2017
Other classification:
  • FIC045000 | CGN006000 | CGN004130
Summary: "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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"Originally published as Otouto no Otto by Futabasha Publishers Ltd., Tokyo, in 2014"--Title page verso.

"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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