SUMIE KAWAKAMI
Saturday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m.

While interviewing Japanese women between 2005 and 2007, Japanese journalist (and single mother) Sumie Kawakami uncovered a variety of perspectives about modern love, sex, and relationships. Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman (from Seattle's Chin Music Press) shares stories about sexless marriages, special 'health delivery' services, and other arrangements made by people seeking love and companionship. "Sumie Kawakami is an experienced and intelligent reporter who manages to get her subjects to bare their souls and share their anxieties in a book I found hard to put down." - Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times.

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