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My brother's husband

田亀源五郎, 1964- author, artist. Tagame, Gengoroh 1964- (author,, artist.). Ishii, Anne, (translator.).

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

Book  - 2020
GN FIC Tagam
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  • ISBN: 9780375715181
  • Physical Description print
    704 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Edition First American paperback edition.
  • Publisher New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover in two volumes by Pantheon Books...in 2017 and 2018. Originally published in Japan as two volumes as Otōto no Otto by Futabasha Publishers Ltd., Tokyo, in 2014 and 2016."--Title page verso.
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Awards Note:
Eisner Award - Best U.S. Edition of International Material (2018).