Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. His face was barely maintaining a form that could even berecognized as human. That night, my husband left the iPad outside the bedroom. Nov. 2018. . Maybe someone told it tome, a long time ago. The Women makes the battle of the sexes literal, too, as women turn into garish embodiments of male desirebut stronger and deadlier. These pastiches, parodies, and hauntings are all brilliantly translatedwith all their uncanny intactby Asa Yoneda. . Translated by Asa Yoneda. I have the feeling I would have met a version of myself I dont know now? "The Lonesome Bodybuilder", trans. Anyone can read what you share. We support credit card, debit card and PayPal payments. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . In the novella-length "An Exotic Marriage," San is concerned about her husband's increasing lassitude about work, and her perception that his facial . [31] Her first daughter was born in October 2015.[32]. Any reader pursuing concrete examples of nimble writing and unconventional resolutions could do a hell of a lot worse than Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a collection of short stories that mangle and deform the familiar until it becomes something both wildly unexpected and deeply welcome. [23] An English version of her play Vengeance can Wait, translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, premiered in 2008 at the Best of Boroughs Festival in New York City. [10] Motoya's 2009 novel Ano ko no kangaeru koto wa hen (That Girl's Got Some Strange Ideas) was nominated for the 141st Akutagawa Prize. But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . I guessed hemust be feeling needy. Nevertheless, she feels invisible because her husband never notices her. Even when she poses in front of him in a micro bikini, her hair now short, her body filled out and covered in tanning oil, he asks: Whats that? Its also the collections penultimate entry. The characters featured in them arent particularly good at intimacy, even if they live in close proximity to spouses, old friends, and co-workers. It settled to the floor in countless small clumps. Freed, he turns into a mountain peony. The executive who holds her tongue at the meeting also sees, or dreams that she sees, faces in inanimate objects; she suffers from a condition called pareidolia, in which the mind perceives illusory patterns in random stimuli. In the title story, a husband watches a boxing match and asks his wife what she thinks of his body. The other persons ideas, interests, andhabits would gradually take the place of my own. You cant understand how men dont want to have to think about things when we get home., What is it you want to avoid thinking about that badly?. Yukiko Motoya aims her leveling gaze at sexism in contemporary Japanese society, reserving her strangest fates for men who underestimate the women in their lives. . I didnt say what I was thinking, but he must have sensed it. Hakone quenched her thirst with cold roasted green tea from the vending machine. Their tone is light and good-natured, but they mean to modify by force the received notions of relationships and their default mode of subjugated women. Normally he was never this insistent. Motoya's stories tend to include a few odd details and features -- often contrasting with the seeming . . 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Weight: 196 g. Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mm. New Worlds Forever Measured by the Old: On Burning Province by Michael Prior, Katherine M. Hedeen On Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly. (He will no doubt be prepared to be swung as hard as it takes to protect your honor.) The husbands are oppressively thoughtless, moody, domineering. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. I remembered that once, many years ago, Id asked Santa Claus for a present: to wake up and have the whole world to myself, she recalls as she wanders the ghost town. Translated by Asa Yoneda. Margaryta Golovchenko. Lingerie? Back to the gym she goes. At other points, the couple are recast as ravenous snakes. (Several tales allude to Kwaidan, a ghoulish anthology compiled by the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn, in 1904.). I gave up and cleared the table andwent for a bath, but when I came back, my husband hadnt moved. By emphasizing a characteristic nimbleness in Japanese storytelling, Mockett draws attention to these often-invisible constructs; she shows, using examples from a number of childrens stories, the ways in which the rigid archetypes that we learn to recognize as we grow upexpectations of character or plot; the solid demarcations of good or evilcan be blurred into something more delightfully nebulous than the western canon prepares us for. What if thereends up being more of the bad? These two stories stand out from the others, which, at times, are held back by traces of redundancy or ideas that are almost excessively legible. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. In the realms of Motoya, believable behavior is more destructive and upsetting than any surreal occurrence. . . Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Ganders GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Chris Via Arent you worried? Fun and funny . Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. Motoyas women exist most vividly in their own heads, a state of being that often leaves them feeling alone in a crowd. He currently lives in Washington, DC. Look at the bottom of the screen. John Scioli, the owner of the Community Bookstore, in Brooklyn, prepares to shutter a neighborhood institution. [24] In 2009 her play Shiawase saiko arigat maji de, about a woman who enters a couple's home and declares that she is the husband's mistress, won the 53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. He seemed to be enjoying eating me up so much that the sensation of it spread to me, and I felt as though I were tasting my own self. The reader wonders: Am I the strange one? Other nuances arrive in Paprika Jiro, a story that conveys a fondness for mercantile traditions. Perhaps the most resonant stories are those about marriage; Motoya (a playwright as well as an author) excels in putting husband and wife through unusual trials. March 2021 Micro-Reviews, Amy Hassinger Men and women enter into romances with shape-shifters. I finished towel-dryingmy hair and stepped out onto the balcony to bring in the laundryId hung out that afternoon. [12][13] Motoya subsequently won the 7th Kenzaburo Oe Prize for her 2012 collection Arashi no pikunikku (Picnic in the Storm),[14] and the 27th Mishima Yukio Prize for her 2013 novel Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou. In "An Exotic Marriage," the collection's centerpiece, the narrator, Sen, marries a man who refuses to engage with the world. Each time I looked at my husband lying on the couch, I had the strange impression I was living with a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. Do you remember, on our honeymoon, how I chewed up allthe fruit for you so you could eat it?, Sure. [15], In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. Asa Yoneda. For instance, in Fitting Room, a boutique employee, faced with a customer who wont leave the changing room, remembers that the fitting rooms were moveable, on wheels. Motoya wastes no time: the employee wheels the fitting room and customer out of the shop. The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. Yukiko Motoya, trans. -, "Like a bouquet of exotic flowers, her stories are varied and full of surprise, starting out with mundane situations and then turning strange in a way that feels uniquely Japanese. Lying on the couch, they prompt the strange impression of a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. There is acid in Motoyas surrealism: these women will put up with anything! She is typical of Motoyas women: conferring an excess of personhood on whomever or whatever is at hand, yearning to connect to something that isnt there. The pears?. August 2021 Micro-Reviews, Christina Pugh [6][7], In 2002, prompted by a magazine editor's invitation, Motoya made her fiction debut with the short story Eriko to zettai (Eriko and Absolutely). (Picnic in the Storm) Motoyas book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilders husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster. Yukiko Motoya's imagination is wild and rich in her eleven whimsical short stories in this book. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. With frank sincerity, Motoya makes the exhausted clichs of marriage and intimacy literal, and thus, energetically strange. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is made up of 10 short stories, some barely three or four pages long, and a novella, "An Exotic Marriage". Hearing Hakonessnake-ball story, I finally felt that something that had beencloudy to me had become clear. She comes to have a community of people who support her, and her bulging musclesher arms looked huge enough to snap a log in halfearn her a following at the natural-beauty store where she works. How Climate-Change Fiction, or Cli-Fi, Forces Us to Confront the Incipient Death of the Planet. The stories are funny and creepy; they have a campfire vibe, a brush of the moonless night. One woman puts it to her husband directly: You can stop being husband shaped now! Motoya is restless among the halls of convention; she appreciates the classic elements of short stories, but is eager to deface them with a brightly colored Sharpie. My husband the snake opened hismouth and swallowed me headfirst, and I desperately resisted hissticky, moist membranes, but soon the inside of his body becamea pleasurable place to be. He probably thought that once he and I became one,he would never again have to worry about being judged by others. [4] From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host for Nippon Broadcasting System's late night radio show All Night Nippon. MEDIA REVIEWS. On Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade, Matt McBride personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to In Front of Strangers I Sing: The Strange Intimacy of Paul Celan, Benjamin Hedin Often--no, occasionally--when in a singular state of solitude which follows intense upheaval, there occurs these moments in which the world seems to expand into something unfathomably big. Theyhad a feature on department store deli eats, and the Spicy FilletSteak Summer Set Bento just looked so delicious, she said, flattening her plump eyelids in anticipation. Snake ball! This is abundantly illustrated in An Exotic Marriage, a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husbands identity is blending with her own. [8], Motoya's novel Ikiteru dake de ai (Love at Least), about an unemployed and apparently depressed woman's relationship with her boyfriend, was published in 2006 by Shinchosha. Bodybuilder is the best example, and in An Exotic Marriage, a familiar notion of couples starting to look alike turns eerie. -, "Many of the stories, deftly translated by Asa Yoneda, are arresting with their strong female lead characters, starting with the mundane before venturing deep into the rabbit hole with surreal twists and turns. In the wonderful title story, the narrator returns from the grocery store to find her husband sitting on the couch, watching a boxing match. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month. Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is available from Soft Skull Press. The other stories are trim and propulsive, itching to move forward, using their surreal elements to interrogate assumptions about intimacy and the complacency of partnership. Our Final Words: A Review of Eternal Sentences by Michael McGriff, Katherine M. Hedeen How could he even see straight? "You should be careful," her . Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. For the narrator, San, a bored housewife whose husband ignores her in favor of TV and video games, anxiety is manifested literallyand strangely. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group. The same goes for San, whose face melts into new patterns. Other women in the book pursue men who are made of straw or advise each other to marry bicycle saddles. In The Lonesome Bodybuilder, characters correctly identify weird behavior as weird, but they mistake out-of-bounds, supernatural weird for human, lifes a rich tapestry weird. Asa Yoneda, This page was last edited on 18 November 2022, at 09:31. My husband seemed anxious to make a snake ball with me. The author reaches, with language, toward a reader who may or may not be there. can lose themselves to mundanity and wrestle to reclaim their selfhood is best illustrated in the novella-length "An Exotic Marriage . We used to sing this song all the time. Or: What really would have happened if Id gotten on the roller coaster that day? They operate, she writes, with a cripplingly limited understanding of what successful story structure is and is not, and what ought to feel satisfying. Their understandingsand ours, though we may try to resistare the products of cultural constructs, not natural laws. $16.95. All this time, I had been feedingmyself to those men. Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . Its when Motoya is on the rocky terrain of collapsing relationships that her strangeness finds the friction it needs to stick." [16] At the prize ceremony the press commented on her mismatched socks, leading Motoya to admit that she had not expected to win, and had rushed to the prize ceremony without any special preparation. Their changing forms force San and her husband to confront the half-truths their marriage is founded on. Motoyas collection is a bold broadcast: fiction should be wild and daring, and less beholden to the rigors of logic than to the power and potency of surprise. Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. At their very heart, however, are everyday struggles that are not only typical in contemporary Japanese society, but identifiable around the world" -. Q&A, which is presented as the deathbed ravings of a beauty columnist, is a meta delirium of tips, callbacks to previous stories, and rage. "The Reason I Carry Biscuits to Offer to Young Boys", trans. Eventually, Id start to feel in danger of root rot, and would hurriedly break the pot and uproot myself. Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. Malleability can imply a womans weakness, or it can imply power. . He seemed not to realize that anything was amiss, and simplylooked at me with his terrifyingly wide-set eyes, and said, Are they all gone?. I didn't like that story much at allit shouldn't have been in this collection. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. (That may be an additional appeal of the gym: in a precarious world, a weight lifter looks exactly like what she is.) By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you' Financial Times 'Delightful . The unsettling way people can lose themselves to mundanity and wrestle to reclaim their selfhood is best illustrated in the novella-length An Exotic Marriage. Originally published on its own, it earned Motoya the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2016 and was translated for this collection. The Lonesome Bodybuilder (published as Picnic in the Storm in the UK ) collects eleven stories -- though one, the Akutagawa Prize-winning novella, 'An Exotic Marriage', is considerably longer than the rest, taking up more than a third of the book by itself. For the first time in months, his hand crept into my bed, undermy comforter. Go, Zoromi, go do it for her. He movedthe cat off the space beside him where shed been asleep, and beckoned to me. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. One night, after dinner, I was surprised to notice my husband engrossedin his iPad rather than the variety show playing on the TV. Uwano recommended this game, my husband said at last. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. There is something pareidolic about the writing process. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Touch one and see, he said, so I tried pressing on a browndisc with my finger. By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you., Financial Times These uncanny stories surprise, unnerve and haunt, Spectator Incredibly enjoyable stories, Daily Mail . The Dogs avoids such risks by dint of its elusiveness and subtlety. By Yukiko Motoya. To Motoya, complacency is not only a violation of selfhood but also of fiction. The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. When I served him the peeled pear segments on a plate, thehusband-like creature excitedly reached for a cocktail stick. Translated by Asa Yoneda. Snake ball, huh? I poked at a piece of grilled eel laid on the rice, and pictured a bright white ball covered in scales. This is abundantly illustrated in "An Exotic Marriage," a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husband's identity is blending with her own. Left to their own devices, these characters may have been content with the status quo, but the universe Motoya builds taunts them with their secret motivations until theyre forced to confront them publicly. Characters change; literally, their facial features move, morph, disappear. I dont remember where I read it. I decide who I am, and never consider other possibilities. In another story, I Called You by Name, an ad exec compares her past and present, recalling her earlier determination to never allow herself to be bound by anything as common as common sense.. If the reader has trouble picturing this, there is a cartoon diagram to assist. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. Other extraordinary examples from the collection: A girlfriend challenges her boyfriend to a duel and turns into a miniskirt-wearing siren; a husband made of straw harps on his wife to take better care of their BMW. . Soft Skull Press. Id brought her to the store, promising to buy her something new to wear, or anything else she wanted, but Hakone had headed straight for the escalator down to the basement food hall and asked for a bento. Hakone swiftly referred to the floor guide and said, This way, and took off without sparing a glance at the stalls she passed. I was feigning calm, but my voice came outhigher than normal. I think thats the image I have of marriage. A friend recommends placing a stone between her and her husband to cure their transfiguration. 209 pages. Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/books/review/lonesome-bodybuilder-yukiko-motoya.html. The Kenyon Review is supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. I followed, but never having been very good at walking throughcrowds, I kept barging into peoples shoulders, and by the time I caught up, she had already joined the line for the steak bento. On We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, Jessica Tanck Main | the New | the Best | the Rest | Review Index | Links, Twelve stories from collections originally published in Japanese in 2015 and 2016, "Her characters seem to be searching for the strangest, and most estranged, parts of themselves. She admits that she has lost confidence in herself, living with a perfectionist husband (who doesn't pay that much attention to her, long oblivious even to the dramatic physical change she undergoes). Excitement becomes execution. As the strangeness mounts, San observes her identity as something willed and imposed. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers. . A draft blows through the talesloneliness, the most spectral emotion. The fact that I couldnt stop, even if I tried, was proof that it wasnt actually a matter of anything as benign as acting or pretending.. Never is the ennui of these men treated as anything more than a product of their privilege and their twisted expectations of the people around themwhich rescues much of the collection from a dive into the dour and dismal. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. Authenticity is a reclamation project, and her characters go to great lengths to prove their agency. Every time I noticed myself acting as though that was who Id been all along, a chill went up my spine, she confesses. 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