It also indicates the range of Motoyas storytelling style by unveiling additional powers of suggestion and atmospheric description. I carefully took a piece of each and placedthem on top of Hakones rice. Readers who are familiar with Japanese folklore, manga, or anime will probably find some of the themes to be mundane - there is much reminiscent of Rumiko Takahashi in the more fantastic stories, like The Dogs or An Exotic Marriage. The option to explode a life or a story greatly appeals to her. That night, my husband left the iPad outside the bedroom. On Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly. This is abundantly illustrated in "An Exotic Marriage," a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husband's identity is blending with her own. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. You can still enjoy your subscription until the end of your current billing period. Lying on the couch, they prompt the strange impression of a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. There is acid in Motoyas surrealism: these women will put up with anything! [1] As a child she read mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edogawa Ranpo, as well as horror manga. At other points, the couple are recast as ravenous snakes. By emphasizing a characteristic nimbleness in Japanese storytelling, Mockett draws attention to these often-invisible constructs; she shows, using examples from a number of childrens stories, the ways in which the rigid archetypes that we learn to recognize as we grow upexpectations of character or plot; the solid demarcations of good or evilcan be blurred into something more delightfully nebulous than the western canon prepares us for. But I guess that cant be right. () The writing itself is to be admired." Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. Motoya's stories tend to include a few odd details and features -- often contrasting with the seeming . The following is from Yukiko Motoya's collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder. 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Wed found a table in the seating area of the department stores food hall. Maybe thats why its so easy being with you. It seemed that all he was doing was almost robotically placing hisfinger on the discs. Motoyas characters suffer from a deeper affliction than alienation; theyre often lost in relationships and attempting to carve out identities amid ambivalence. These two stories stand out from the others, which, at times, are held back by traces of redundancy or ideas that are almost excessively legible. Your email address will not be published. Its when Motoya is on the rocky terrain of collapsing relationships that her strangeness finds the friction it needs to stick." . When he made me sit with him while he watched his varietyshows, claiming it was more fun than watching alone, it had to bethat he was trying to erase the chilly gaze that he felt I was directingat him. Infinite Entanglements in Allison Cobbs Plastic: An Autobiography, Elizabeth Bailey Her novel Funuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) In The Lonesome Bodybuilder, characters correctly identify weird behavior as weird, but they mistake out-of-bounds, supernatural weird for human, lifes a rich tapestry weird. Every time I would ask, You really enjoy itthat much? hed say, Thats not what its about, in a curiously languid tone. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Number of pages: 224. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . Left to their own devices, these characters may have been content with the status quo, but the universe Motoya builds taunts them with their secret motivations until theyre forced to confront them publicly. Strangely, too, the men Id been with had all wanted me to grow in them. "You should be careful," her . Motoyas characters tend to be housewives and service workers, and her tales revolve around intimate or faux-intimate relationships. You should be careful, her neighbor tells her. [29] As of 2017 she is co-host of the Fuji TV documentary series 7 Rules. We support credit card, debit card and PayPal payments. On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis $16.95. On The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy, Asa Drake My husband looked up from the iPad for the first time in awhile, and what I saw nearly made me shriek and run from theroom. He says his ex-wifes been sending him strange garbled emails recently, I said. Motoya pushes the premise further: as the narrators body drastically changes, her husband doesnt see it. Arent you going to have any? the husband-like thing said. How to Fix Transistor Radios and Printed Circuits, DR. D.T.R.S BIRDS ARENT REAL CURED MY PARAFEARMONIA: A TESTIMONIAL, ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis, Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer, Sayantani Dasguptas Misbehaving Women an interview byJ aya Wagle, Not Tonight: A Review of Kelly McClures Something Is Always Happening Somewhere, STANDING UNDER THE TREE: A REVIEW OF LEAVE SOCIETY BY TAO LIN, POETS NOT TALKING ABOUT POETRY: MICHAEL SIKKEMA. Maybe someone told it tome, a long time ago. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie You cant understand how men dont want to have to think about things when we get home., What is it you want to avoid thinking about that badly?. Every time I noticed myself acting as though that was who Id been all along, a chill went up my spine, she confesses. . "Life's not worth living if you're not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!". And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. Relationships often cause Motoyas characters to suffer a loss of identity. Ad Choices. Sharlene Teos Ponti recently tracked the codependent relationship between two teens, while Neel Patels If You See Me, Dont Say Hi was a collection of short stories that doubled as a study of longing. [17] The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha. Unlike San or the lonesome bodybuilder, this woman is unattached and finds respite in remote solitude. Her eyes were focused on the booths cloud-glass partition, but her mouth was still chewing away steadily at the steak. (That may be an additional appeal of the gym: in a precarious world, a weight lifter looks exactly like what she is.) Motoya sets a scene involving several hundred couples engaged in a melee defying all imagining by inventorying the screams, the clash of weapons, men begging for their lives from lovers who seemed beyond language, belated confessions of love The story concludes in a tragedy, but its later reversed by a single line in a different story. In so many of these stories, possibilities stretch, and the abandonment of realism feels like having your eyes wrenched open. Go, Zoromi, go do it for her. He movedthe cat off the space beside him where shed been asleep, and beckoned to me. . Asa Yoneda. So you collect the money, and then what?, When youve collected enough, you can buy your own land., You buy your own land, and then? In How to Burden the Girl, a thirty-four-year-old recluse spies on the younger woman who has moved in next door. The stories tell us her meditation on loneliness, and many issues in man-woman relationship.The most impressive story is An Exotic Marriage in which the wife felt that she was losing her identity in the marriage, and her husband started 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . Any reader pursuing concrete examples of nimble writing and unconventional resolutions could do a hell of a lot worse than Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a collection of short stories that mangle and deform the familiar until it becomes something both wildly unexpected and deeply welcome. Motoya's stories tend to include a few odd details and features -- often contrasting with the seeming normality of the narration, a mix of the absurd and matter-of-fact mundane. I think thats the image I have of marriage. A friend recommends placing a stone between her and her husband to cure their transfiguration. At the end of a story with an aesthetic solution, the narrative action is suspendedrather than resolvedand the author leaves the audience with a natural image that resists interpretation. Histeeth must have been in their right place, because they made achamping sound as he chewed. Let the cat do it. I have the feeling I would have met a version of myself I dont know now? One of the collections most active narrators is the curmudgeonly craftswoman at the center of The Dogs, the penultimate story. One woman tries to compensate for her husbands lack of confidence by listing all my own faults. A second character, an executive, wishes to speak her mind at a meeting but fears that she hasnt established herself among her colleagues as the kind of person who could say that sort of thing. The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertionof both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Q&A, which is presented as the deathbed ravings of a beauty columnist, is a meta delirium of tips, callbacks to previous stories, and rage. Is that the problem? I asked. Story Comes From Place: On Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles, Jasmine V. Bailey Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. 224 pp. Didnt that explain why I didnt much mind whether it was a husbandI was living with or something only resembling a husband? These pastiches, parodies, and hauntings are all brilliantly translatedwith all their uncanny intactby Asa Yoneda. All the while, it seems her husband cant be bothered to noticeshe is an afterthought only, and he appears to be too bored of life to be able to sense the swirling wonder of her story. After that, my husband took to tinkling the fake coins incessantly,everywherein the bath, on the toilet, even under thecovers. She pushes her stories to surreal ends and cross-pollinates wry and solemn tones. The tales in The Lonesome Bodybuilder boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion, all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. On Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young, Kyle Wang The Lonesome Bodybuilder We use Then I felt skinslacken, and bodies start to yield, and then I could no longer tellwhose sensations I was feeling. I followed, but never having been very good at walking throughcrowds, I kept barging into peoples shoulders, and by the time I caught up, she had already joined the line for the steak bento. . Characters change . ISBN: 9781472154354. -, "Many of the stories, deftly translated by Asa Yoneda, are arresting with their strong female lead characters, starting with the mundane before venturing deep into the rabbit hole with surreal twists and turns. The husband-like thingpicked up the cocktail stick and popped a pear segment into themouth, which was positioned perilously close to his jawline. "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. But it would have been suspicious for me to say no. I took a mouthful of grilled eel seasoned with plenty of sansho pepper. Walker Rutter-Bowman received his MFA from Syracuse University. My body was startingto coil, and I tried to stop thinking by closing my eyes even more tightly. In 'Typhoon' people take flight with their umbrellas in a great storm -- so many that eventually the narrator finds: "as I scanned the sky, I spotted loads of tiny human figures floating among the dark clouds". Motoya Yukiko, general information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author. He has received fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. In her stories alienation is less a threat than a feature of contemporary life. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is made up of 10 short stories, some barely three or four pages long, and a novella, "An Exotic Marriage". These stories are pointed, possessed by a defiant and often violent spirit. In Fitting Room, the customer never comes out. The ride can be anxious but never dull. . Even the missteps attest to Motoyas fictive mandate: to be unburdened by rules and restraints. Soft Skull Press. The husband, San explains, waited until after their marriage to reveal the depths of his incuriosity. Asa Yoneda. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. I think?. March 2021 Micro-Reviews, Amy Hassinger Main | the New | the Best | the Rest | Review Index | Links, Twelve stories from collections originally published in Japanese in 2015 and 2016, "Her characters seem to be searching for the strangest, and most estranged, parts of themselves. Maybe I dont really know, myself. With frank sincerity, Motoya makes the exhausted clichs of marriage and intimacy literal, and thus, energetically strange. . Motoya founded her own theater company and has also set aside time for various other endeavors, like hosting a radio show and a televised documentary series. But something else is at work, too: throughout the collection, and especially in stories like Typhoon, Straw Husband, and The Dogs. Sign up for our mailing list to get the latest updates on happenings at Maudlin House, and product discounts! Its saddermore bruisingthan a revenge fantasy. Fun and funny . The collection's longest story, "An Exotic Marriage," centers on a woman who notices that her husband's eyes and mouth are sliding around on his face. The complete review's Review: . Tomokos animosity toward her straw husband is as brief as it is startling. Unlike the alienation other characters face within the context of relationships, she is literally all alone, but this only strengthens her sense of self. An insidious exchange of traits and gender stereotypes unfolds and the boundaries between the two characters become porous. He's a founding member of Literary Starbucks (2016) and a recovering poetry editor with a chronic crush on nouns that get used as adjectives. The other stories are trim and propulsive, itching to move forward, using their surreal elements to interrogate assumptions about intimacy and the complacency of partnership. by Michael Heller and James Salzman, Zach Savich On Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade, Matt McBride At the story's beginning, he seems like a . Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. . In Yukiko Motoyas delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. No, I said. There is something pareidolic about the writing process. Id brought her to the store, promising to buy her something new to wear, or anything else she wanted, but Hakone had headed straight for the escalator down to the basement food hall and asked for a bento. If the reader has trouble picturing this, there is a cartoon diagram to assist. And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. But after four years, I hadnttried to escape from the soil that was my husband. Motoya won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary prize, for AN EXOTIC MARRIAGE, the novella contained in THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER; this book offers the exciting opportunity to introduce Motoya to a U.S. audience. When I sat down next to him, the husband-like thing pickedup the TV remote and started flipping through channels. Near But Not Touching: On The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies, Tracy Zeman Youd both be in trouble then,wouldnt you? Hakone said. She comes to have a community of people who support her, and her bulging musclesher arms looked huge enough to snap a log in halfearn her a following at the natural-beauty store where she works. Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Ganders GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Chris Via MEDIA REVIEWS. THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER: STORIES by Yukiko Motoya, Tr. On The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim, Diana Whitney university () By the first few sentences of, "Like soap bubbles, several of these stories catch your eye, but the instant they are gone you forget about them. She has glimmering pink hair, shes an unstoppable ninja, she fights bad guys in the garden every day. by But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . Yukiko Motoya's imagination is wild and rich in her eleven whimsical short stories in this book. Her husbands jealousy is another form of misperception. . Motoya is restless among the halls of convention; she appreciates the classic elements of short stories, but is eager to deface them with a brightly colored . Other extraordinary examples from the collection: A girlfriend challenges her boyfriend to a duel and turns into a miniskirt-wearing siren; a husband made of straw harps on his wife to take better care of their BMW. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers. I was secretly impressed by Hakones story. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a99614a11d827b9063a1afe41f6c5bef" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I was still thinking about the ex-wife following the refrigerator conversation. On Deluge by Leila Chatti, Anne Graue The 11 short stories in this collection, translated by Asa Yoneda, range in tone from ominous thrillers to lighthearted folktales, but they always seem to return to a depletion of self. Her books have . Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. At first, The Lonesome Bodybuilder appears most interested in chills and moods; I needed time for its feminism and its political threads to catch the light. 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I shivered, then looked up and saw there was an AC ventembedded in the ceiling right above my head. What are you doing on there? I peered over his shoulder. I think?. -, "Like a bouquet of exotic flowers, her stories are varied and full of surprise, starting out with mundane situations and then turning strange in a way that feels uniquely Japanese. In the realms of Motoya, believable behavior is more destructive and upsetting than any surreal occurrence. That only made the boundary between the skin of ourentwined bodies even hazier. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. Theres a Jungian undercurrent in Motoyas writing, which seems to prize self-actualization as a way to mendor endtroubled relationships. Exploring the struggle against alienation isnt new ground to tread in literature. In Front of Strangers I Sing: The Strange Intimacy of Paul Celan, Benjamin Hedin The question of why she reassembles him looms large, and implies a sort of complicity in misery, an experience common among Motoyas characters. . The 11 stories in the collection follow individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces, are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, and the alien, and are ultimately led to liberation. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Nevertheless, she feels invisible because her husband never notices her. Hey, give itback if youre not even going to play. My husband took the iPadfrom my hand and sank his head back to the game. The wife tries her best to boost his ego, fails, then decides to take up bodybuilding. Perhaps the most resonant stories are those about marriage; Motoya (a playwright as well as an author) excels in putting husband and wife through unusual trials. I thought perhaps the gamegot more interesting the longer you played, but whenever I lookedover my husbands shoulder, the screen always looked the same. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. analyse how our Sites are used. When I did finally manage to look up from this wonderful constellation of stories, I felt myself looking for the unexpected in all sorts of mundane places. Instead of responding, I looked down and nibbled a slice of pear. I recalled seeing a circular in the mailroomabout plans to prune the plantings. By now, I was like the ghost of a snakethat had already been eaten up by many other snakes, and Id lostmy own body long before getting swallowed up by my husband. To Motoya, complacency is not only a violation of selfhood but also of fiction. Motoyas emphases include tedious relationships, workplace gender dynamics, and the soporific entertainments and culinary distractions of our modern age. English translation copyright 2018 by Asa Yoneda. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Marie Mockett takes umbrage, in her excellent Lit Hub essay Our Fairy Tales, Ourselves, with critics and philosophers whose pursuit of universal laws of narrative structure blind them to the expansive possibilities of literature. Empire Gold : A Review of Claire Meuschkes UPEND, John Wall Barger Every time I got together with someone new, I got replanted, and the nutrients from the old soil disappeared without a trace. When something akin to freedom is gained, its often vague or ostensible, but the impediments to that freedom are surveyed in great detail. 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