Gina in the Floating World - Paperback

by Belle Brett (Author)

When naïve but ambitious Midwesterner Dorothy Falwell accepts the help of a wealthy customer at the Tokyo bar where she works as a hostess, she lands on a twisted road in her own version of Oz, where unorthodox Zen instruction, erotic art, and kinky sex cause her moral compass to go so haywire that working as a prostitute feels normal and the way home, unimaginable.

Author Biography

Belle Brett is a graduate of Grub Street's intensive Novel Incubator program. After a career in education as a teacher, career counselor, and evaluator of educational programs, she is now an artist and a writer, contributing to her own and others' blogs and writing fiction that deals with coming of age across the life span. She holds a doctorate of education in human development and psychology from Harvard University. A lifelong traveler, in her twenties Belle served as a bar hostess in a working-class Tokyo suburb after a six-month trip across Asia. She now lives with her photographer husband in Somerville, Massachusetts. Gina in the Floating World is her first novel.