Marina is in a small town in Japan to teach English for a year. Heartbreaking at moments, so very funny at others. Great dry humor!

I loved this insight into Conroy's personal reading history! "I wanted to be lit up, all the cities and all the hill towns within me sacked and torn to the ground and the crops destroyed and the earth salted. Now when I pick up a book, the prayer that rises out of me is that it changes me utterly.."