If You Follow Me

“I love, love, love If You Follow Me. It’s
fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can’t
recommend it highly enough.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling
author of Prep and American Wife

In Malena Watrous' beautifully
wrought and deftly written debut novel, we meet Marina, a young woman who has
come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. For
her, Shika is more than just her home as a “temporary person.” It’s also an
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