Pantheon Books

My Brother's Husband Volume 1

$24.95

Pantheon Books

My Brother's Husband Volume 1

$24.95
  • Description

From one of Japan's most notable graphic novelists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance.

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in.

What follows is an unprecedented journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it.

Artist: Gengoroh Tagame
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages: 357pp
Size: 5 x 7
Notes: hardcover, b/w
Release Date: May 2, 2017
ISBN: 978-1101871515