East is East

by T.C. Boyle

Published 7 March 1991
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaki jumps ship, only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. He is unwittingly caught in an amusing and complicated web of misunderstanding.