On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis In the novella-length "An Exotic Marriage," San is concerned about her husband's increasing lassitude about work, and her perception that his facial . Small discs ofdifferent colors twinkled all across the map. To Motoya, complacency is not only a violation of selfhood but also of fiction. The husband-like thingpicked up the cocktail stick and popped a pear segment into themouth, which was positioned perilously close to his jawline. Wed found a table in the seating area of the department stores food hall. When I sat down next to him, the husband-like thing pickedup the TV remote and started flipping through channels. Yukiko Motoya ( , Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress. . Motoya pushes the premise further: as the narrators body drastically changes, her husband doesnt see it. How to Fix Transistor Radios and Printed Circuits, DR. D.T.R.S BIRDS ARENT REAL CURED MY PARAFEARMONIA: A TESTIMONIAL, ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis, Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer, Sayantani Dasguptas Misbehaving Women an interview byJ aya Wagle, Not Tonight: A Review of Kelly McClures Something Is Always Happening Somewhere, STANDING UNDER THE TREE: A REVIEW OF LEAVE SOCIETY BY TAO LIN, POETS NOT TALKING ABOUT POETRY: MICHAEL SIKKEMA. My husband the snake opened hismouth and swallowed me headfirst, and I desperately resisted hissticky, moist membranes, but soon the inside of his body becamea pleasurable place to be. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Sometimes the rules of the world change on the spot. Motoya won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary prize, for AN EXOTIC MARRIAGE, the novella contained in THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER; this book offers the exciting opportunity to introduce Motoya to a U.S. audience. We have to accept that were responsible for the physical effects theyre experiencing! a man yells, as the narrators girlfriends lips produce their own lipstick; the narrator tearfully euthanizes her. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. [24] In 2009 her play Shiawase saiko arigat maji de, about a woman who enters a couple's home and declares that she is the husband's mistress, won the 53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award. On Memorial Drive: A Daughters Memoir by Natasha Trethewey, John Wall Barger It also indicates the range of Motoyas storytelling style by unveiling additional powers of suggestion and atmospheric description. To get at the deeper themes of strained marriages, traditional gender roles and love, Motoya subverts tropes and allows her characters to inhabit bizarre and metaphorical trajectories. Every time I got together with someone new, I got replanted, and the nutrients from the old soil disappeared without a trace. Never is the ennui of these men treated as anything more than a product of their privilege and their twisted expectations of the people around themwhich rescues much of the collection from a dive into the dour and dismal. . "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. "You should be careful," her . It settled to the floor in countless small clumps. Freed, he turns into a mountain peony. This is abundantly illustrated in An Exotic Marriage, a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husbands identity is blending with her own. [29] As of 2017 she is co-host of the Fuji TV documentary series 7 Rules. On If by Song by Marcia Karp, Brian Chander Wiora The stories are funny and creepy; they have a campfire vibe, a brush of the moonless night. Asa Yoneda. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie Maybe someone told it tome, a long time ago. Snake ball! The option to explode a life or a story greatly appeals to her. Yukiko Motoya ( , Motoya Yukiko, born July 14, 1979) is a Japanese novelist, playwright, theatre director, and former voice actress.She has won numerous Japanese literary and dramatic awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award. A day goes by, and the clerk, who stays all night, offers the woman every piece of clothing in the store, then buys her clothes from another boutique to try on. Was that the fault of the soil, or did the problem lie in the roots? At the end of a story with an aesthetic solution, the narrative action is suspendedrather than resolvedand the author leaves the audience with a natural image that resists interpretation. [3][4] She founded her own theater company, called Gekidan Motoyo Yukiko (Motoya Yukiko Theater Company), in 2000, and began writing and staging her own plays. Walker Rutter-Bowman received his MFA from Syracuse University. "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . A married couple begin to look like each other, and the wife wonders how she can prevent it. By Yukiko Motoya. But in a world that both values men and teaches men to value themselves so much more highly than their partners, any partnership seems doomed to disappoint. One of Mocketts main foci is an introduction to Hayao Kawais suggestion of an aesthetic solution common in Japanese literature. Lingerie? Back to the gym she goes. You don't always know what you're getting into when you pick up a book. [15], In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan's most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. The ride can be anxious but never dull. Id brought her to the store, promising to buy her something new to wear, or anything else she wanted, but Hakone had headed straight for the escalator down to the basement food hall and asked for a bento. Fun and funny . Didnt you say his ex-wife wasreally good-looking?, Really good-looking. Ikiteru dake de ai was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize,[9] and was later adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. She finds a trainer, and a good deal at a nearby fitness club (a rather unlikely "100 Free Sessions Until You See the Results You Want ! Coins.. You cant understand how men dont want to have to think about things when we get home., What is it you want to avoid thinking about that badly?. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. So I ordered a fruit platter from room service, and chewed it all up and spat it out onto the plate, and gave it to you., The husband-like thingsvoice sounded indistinct, as if it were coming from behind a wall of water. Asa Yoneda. Uwano recommended this game, my husband said at last. Story Comes From Place: On Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles, Jasmine V. Bailey . Go, Zoromi, go do it for her. He movedthe cat off the space beside him where shed been asleep, and beckoned to me. On Deluge by Leila Chatti, Anne Graue What happens then?, Yeah. Her varied work has resulted in numerous accolades, and, most recently, the release of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, the first book-length English translation of her fiction. A pulsing sense of anxiety pushes the story forward as readers are left to reconcile her male staffs tepid ignorance with her panicked interior monologue. The narrator, reasoning that she must be lonely, what with her entire family having been killed by an evil gang, asks her out, only to find that his new girlfriend is psychotic and in love with her dad. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is available from Soft Skull Press. Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. The author reaches, with language, toward a reader who may or may not be there. . "The Lonesome Bodybuilder", trans. Her work has been adapted multiple times for film. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. By now, I was like the ghost of a snakethat had already been eaten up by many other snakes, and Id lostmy own body long before getting swallowed up by my husband. The following is from Yukiko Motoya's collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder. Her books have been published in French and Norwegian . Other women in the book pursue men who are made of straw or advise each other to marry bicycle saddles. document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a99614a11d827b9063a1afe41f6c5bef" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Motoyas prose advances a similar principle. Histeeth must have been in their right place, because they made achamping sound as he chewed. () The writing itself is to be admired." The same goes for San, whose face melts into new patterns. [5] She appears in the ending sequences of FLCL during credits, in which she's listed as model. Asa Yoneda, the books translator, has signal-boosted a story collection whose off-kilter style strenuously upholds Motoyas stated mission. Motoya likes her fiction to swerve, not drift or meander, and she doesnt have patience for wandering. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. All the while, it seems her husband cant be bothered to noticeshe is an afterthought only, and he appears to be too bored of life to be able to sense the swirling wonder of her story. The collection is more hits than misses, but a few stories, like Paprika Jiro and Typhoon, skew too quirky and become trivial, though theyre buoyant with fancy. () Motoyas talent for voice informs her first-person narrators, both female and male, who have a genuine vulnerability and convincing matter-of-factness as they veer into the fantastic." At the story's beginning, he seems like a . He says his ex-wifes been sending him strange garbled emails recently, I said. The Women makes the battle of the sexes literal, too, as women turn into garish embodiments of male desirebut stronger and deadlier. The Lake Hamana eel was firmer and more succulent than the one from the Mikawa region. A sales associate at a boutique stays overnight digging up outfits for someoneor somethingthat wont leave the dressing room. Michael Staley. Relationships often cause Motoyas characters to suffer a loss of identity. Motoya sets a scene involving several hundred couples engaged in a melee defying all imagining by inventorying the screams, the clash of weapons, men begging for their lives from lovers who seemed beyond language, belated confessions of love The story concludes in a tragedy, but its later reversed by a single line in a different story. These pastiches, parodies, and hauntings are all brilliantly translatedwith all their uncanny intactby Asa Yoneda. The positioning of his features was deteriorating faster thanever. [19] It included a new translation of Irui konin tan under the title "An Exotic Marriage". A woman trains as a bodybuilder, adding massive ropes of muscle to her back and shoulders, tripling the width of her neckand her husband doesnt notice. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. Men entered into me through my roots like nutrients dissolved in potting soil. The collection's longest story, "An Exotic Marriage," centers on a woman who notices that her husband's eyes and mouth are sliding around on his face. Each story begins unsuspectingly a clerk helps a woman in a changing room, a wife decides to go to the gym and, from these seemingly realistic setups, the magical and the surreal unfold. An insidious exchange of traits and gender stereotypes unfolds and the boundaries between the two characters become porous. Lying on the couch, they prompt the strange impression of a new kind of organism that would die if it exerted itself in any way. There is acid in Motoyas surrealism: these women will put up with anything! It seemed that all he was doing was almost robotically placing hisfinger on the discs. by Michael Heller and James Salzman, Zach Savich Soft Skull Press. 224 pp. The collections longest story, An Exotic Marriage, is more of a novella, and explores physical transformation as a metaphor for the shifting of identities in a relationship. My husband looked up from the iPad for the first time in awhile, and what I saw nearly made me shriek and run from theroom. You can have two slices of my steak if you give me some ofyour eel.. -, "Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. That only made the boundary between the skin of ourentwined bodies even hazier. Your email address will not be published. . Motoyas women exist most vividly in their own heads, a state of being that often leaves them feeling alone in a crowd. Hey, give itback if youre not even going to play. My husband took the iPadfrom my hand and sank his head back to the game. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Motoyas characters tend to be housewives and service workers, and her tales revolve around intimate or faux-intimate relationships. Youd both be in trouble then,wouldnt you? Hakone said. His misperception becomes literal: he cant grasp whats right in front of him. Youd just gotten braces, and you said the metal hurt and you couldnt eat anything. [17] The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha. Such endings introduce a kind of ontological flexibility into the very structure of the storythey bring an essential playfulness to the work that is much more engaging and absorbing than a more rigid finale. A draft blows through the talesloneliness, the most spectral emotion. Everyday objects and places are transformed into odd salves for the hyper-fractured lives of these characters, adding a mischievous streak to The Lonesome Bodybuilder. Motoyas emphases include tedious relationships, workplace gender dynamics, and the soporific entertainments and culinary distractions of our modern age. Im not sure why. In a brilliant analogy, she compares marriage to a snake ball: There are two snakes, and they each start cannibalizing the other ones tail. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. . Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. The characters featured in them arent particularly good at intimacy, even if they live in close proximity to spouses, old friends, and co-workers. Authenticity is a reclamation project, and her characters go to great lengths to prove their agency. (He will no doubt be prepared to be swung as hard as it takes to protect your honor.) The husbands are oppressively thoughtless, moody, domineering. And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. The Dogs avoids such risks by dint of its elusiveness and subtlety. and then the short story "The Exotic Marriage" is a whopping eighty five pages long. "That Morning, When It", trans. As if to prove it, I could hardly recall the men Id been with before. Her stories are about relationships between men and womenseemingly familiar territory, but made strange by the intrusion of surreal elements. $16.95. Men and women enter into romances with shape-shifters. Many of the characters seek lives yet unlived, or lives once lived but later forgotten. The weird garbled messages?, No, but you can just tell these things sometimes., Huh. -, "Like a bouquet of exotic flowers, her stories are varied and full of surprise, starting out with mundane situations and then turning strange in a way that feels uniquely Japanese. Theres a Jungian undercurrent in Motoyas writing, which seems to prize self-actualization as a way to mendor endtroubled relationships. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Sharlene Teos Ponti recently tracked the codependent relationship between two teens, while Neel Patels If You See Me, Dont Say Hi was a collection of short stories that doubled as a study of longing. Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselves and the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentences are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders. The World Owes You Nothing: A Review of Mine! On Asylum by Jill Bialosky, Jehanne Dubrow Theyhad a feature on department store deli eats, and the Spicy FilletSteak Summer Set Bento just looked so delicious, she said, flattening her plump eyelids in anticipation. The answers to questions like that, for example. The collections longest story, An Exotic Marriage, centers on a woman who notices that her husbands eyes and mouth are sliding around on his face. . Blurring the Obvious: Bluebeards First Wife by Ha Seong-Nan, Christopher R. Vaughan Q&A, which is presented as the deathbed ravings of a beauty columnist, is a meta delirium of tips, callbacks to previous stories, and rage. New York, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2018. How History Claims Us: On Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley, Aumaine Rose Smith THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER By Yukiko Motoya Translated by Asa Yoneda 224 pp. . Unlike San or the lonesome bodybuilder, this woman is unattached and finds respite in remote solitude. In spite ofin fact, because ofher affection for the odd and comic, Motoyas stories grant sobering insights into the compromises of love and marriage, the fraught pursuit of art and desire, and the dangers of becoming stuck in the wrong version of your life. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. 209 pages. She becomes the bulge in the curtain, the shadow on the other side of the glassthe strange one. I gave up and cleared the table andwent for a bath, but when I came back, my husband hadnt moved. Its remarkable ending urges one to reexamine the mysteries of the story: the uncanny dogs, the fine-drawn snowbound setting, the temporal ellipsesall those details that seem to delicately conceal the protagonists frayed psychology. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. The women in these stories find themselves with bad mennot malicious or violent, but complacent, uninteresting, and undeserving of their partners. Maybe I dont really know, myself. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. The Lonesome Bodybuilder (published as Picnic in the Storm in the UK .) By emphasizing a characteristic nimbleness in Japanese storytelling, Mockett draws attention to these often-invisible constructs; she shows, using examples from a number of childrens stories, the ways in which the rigid archetypes that we learn to recognize as we grow upexpectations of character or plot; the solid demarcations of good or evilcan be blurred into something more delightfully nebulous than the western canon prepares us for. I followed, but never having been very good at walking throughcrowds, I kept barging into peoples shoulders, and by the time I caught up, she had already joined the line for the steak bento. Malleability can imply a womans weakness, or it can imply power. What are you doing on there? I peered over his shoulder. . An Exotic Marriage, which has some of my favorite elementsa burst of an ending, a Motoya premise built of clever conceit and thoughtful perceptionis inexplicably long, with several side-plots cluttering the central story. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. The Ductility of Person and Time in Saddiq Dzukogis Your Crib, My Qibla, Leslie Stonebraker At first, The Lonesome Bodybuilder appears most interested in chills and moods; I needed time for its feminism and its political threads to catch the light. I saw it on the local news the other day. Do you think hes too immature? . Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. These men are usually husbands, as in the eponymous story that opens the collection, in which the protagonist discovers bodybuilding, becomes enamored with it to the point of obsession, and rapidly transforms both her body and her personality. [2] After completing high school, Motoya moved to Tokyo to study acting, and won a voice acting role in the Hideaki Anno anime adaptation of Kare Kano, but switched her focus to writing after a teacher praised a short play Motoya wrote for the school's graduation ceremony. Infinite Entanglements in Allison Cobbs Plastic: An Autobiography, Elizabeth Bailey But it only applies when the snakes consume each other at the same rate. . They may feel separated from others, but they also feel separated from themselves. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. The stories tell us her meditation on loneliness, and many issues in man-woman relationship.The most impressive story is An Exotic Marriage in which the wife felt that she was losing her identity in the marriage, and her husband started In The Women, a man is forced to kill his own fantasies after they come to life and challenge him to a duel. She pushes her stories to surreal ends and cross-pollinates wry and solemn tones. I recalled seeing a circular in the mailroomabout plans to prune the plantings. He currently lives in Washington, DC. [9][11] Though Nurui doku did not win the Akutagawa Prize, it won the 33rd Noma Literary New Face Prize. Whenever Id gotten close to someone in the past, Id had the feeling that little by little I was being replaced. $16.95. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. That entreatyTake whatever form you want to be!might as well be Motoya imploring writers to make fiction pop and burst, to send it rolling out of the boutique and down the hill, curtain flapping. The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. The stories collected in Yukiko Motoya . She commits to it, lifting regularly and consuming protein powder, yet while others notice her transformation, her husband does not. By the first few sentences of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of "An Exotic Marriage," you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you." --Financial Times "Motoya [has a] gift for making the ordinary magical." --Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture Even when she poses in front of him in a micro bikini, her hair now short, her body filled out and covered in tanning oil, he asks: Whats that? Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is a refreshing reminder that fiction is an elastic medium, capable of stretching into new and surprising shapes. Instead of responding, I looked down and nibbled a slice of pear. You should be careful, her neighbor tells her. The books 11 tales are, in one way or another, about the fettering of freedom. Yeah. My husband nodded while sucking on a strip of dried squid. Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you., Financial Times These uncanny stories surprise, unnerve and haunt, Spectator Incredibly enjoyable stories, Daily Mail . By the first few sentences, you know you're hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of [the story] "An Exotic Marriage", you're certain that Yukiko Motoya's shivery, murmuring voice will never completely leave you' Financial Times 'Delightful . While not explicitly feminist, her female protagonists share a capacity for small rebellions, sudden twitches against life-long habits of conformity. 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