Lost Girls and Love Hotels

<p><strong>Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario </strong></p><p>An achingly honest debut novel of memory self-destruction and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo</p> <p>Sometimes when I'm staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training looking across a sea of shiny black coifs a chorus line of stockinged legs knees together toes to the side when I'm chanting Sir you are endangering yourself and other passengers! I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .</p><p>Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's red light district--teeming with intoxicants pornography and seedy love hotels--is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Frank's descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back along with a pervasive fear that she too is destined to battle mental illness. </p><p> Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day and losing herself at night in drugs alcohol and S&M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction wondering when she'll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyo's illicit underworld their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .</p>