East Is East

A young Japanese seaman jumps ship and washes ashore on a barrier island in this “marvelous [and] razor-edged” ( Cosmopolitan ) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “A hilarious black farce about racial stereotypes, selfish dreams, and ambitions run hopelessly amok . . . It’s a pastoral version of The Bonfire of the Vanities .”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times   Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained