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During daylight hours, the city of Tokyo is the quintessential image of robotic conformity. But at night, it transforms into a "floating world" of escapism, as "all-work" salary men seek a place to play.Though fascinated by Japanese language and culture, American Lea Jacobson, had some difficulty conforming to Japan's rigidly structured society. When she was fired from her job as an English teacher, Lea found work as a nightclub hostess on Tokyo's Ginza strip, and transformed herself into a "Barbie doll" fantasy whose job it was to flatter, flirt and engage in mock- relationships with her middle-aged clients. A direct descendant of the geisha tradition, hostessing quickly became lucrative...and addictive.Her perceptions distorted by the alcohol she was paid to consume, her identity confused by the fake personalities she spun nightly, Jacobson began to lose herself in this fantasy culture. As she descended into self-abuse and alcoholism, she found that the seductive lifestyle she loved so much seemed impossible to escape.
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What saves this youthful memoir from being a dreary litany of boozy nights spent entertaining drunken big-spenders at Tokyo clubs is American translator Jacobson's knowledge of Japanese culture and language. Having originally landed in Japan in 2003 after college at McGill to work as a kindergarten teacher, Jacobson was fired from her job at the Happy Learning English School in Yokosuka city because the psychiatrist she saw for anxiety revealed her condition in a letter to her employer. Outspoken about discrimination against women in Japanese society, fond of drinking and prone to eating disorders and self-cutting, Jacobson drifted among teaching jobs before settling into the more lucrative but taxing employment as a hostess at the Palace, on Tokyo's Ginza strip, where the reigning mama-san taught her the fine art of being a decorative bar flower who serves men drinks and light conversation without being touched. Jacobson soon found her job leaching into all aspects of her life, and the paid dates, drinking and partying prompted a destructive spiral of cutting and blacking out. Truly fascinated by Japanese mores, Jacobson nonetheless elevates her story with compelling digressions into ukiyo (the floating world), geisha tradition and the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, among other topics, for a candid version of cultural immersion. (Apr.)
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