Bar Flower
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007- (by marie)
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- Category: Sobriety Salon
This book will not be released until next year, but it sounds like a fascinating story worth taking a look at…
Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days And Nights As A Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
by Lea Jacobson
St. Martin’s Press
Spring 2008
“Smashed meets the Far East in this harrowing memoir of an American woman’s sojourn in Japan’s erotic “floating world”
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 mockrelationships with her middle-aged clients. A direct descendant of the geisha tradition, hostessing quickly became lucrative…
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.and addictive.
“A breathtakingly honest look at a side of Japan that few foreigners get to see. Jacobson’s experience is a relentless and insightful journey both into Japanese culture and into the destructive side of her own nature. A very compelling read.”
—KARIN MULLER, AUTHOR OF JAPANLANDLEA JACOBSON has a M.A. in East Asian studies and a B.A. in English and Japanese. She works as a translator and a language instructor in Tokyo, Japan, where she lives with her fiancé, Trevor.
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