\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cB\u003eSumie Kawakami is an experienced and intelligent reporter who manages to get her subjects to bare their souls\u003c/B\u003e and share their anxieties in \u003cB\u003ea book I found hard to put down\u003c/B\u003e. \u0026#8221; \u0026#151;Jeff Kingston, \u003cI\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"Kawakami presents a frank portrait of Japanese women today, via these \u003cB\u003ecompulsively readable, expertly crafted essays\u003c/B\u003e. Further kudos should go to Yuko Enomoto for her seamless translation.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;Suzanne Kamata, author of \u003cI\u003eLosing Kei\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u0026#147;\u003cB\u003eA tartly written, stereotype-blasting and beautifully made book.\u003c/B\u003e\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;Roland Kelts, author of \u003cI\u003eJapanamerica\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u0026#147;\u003cB\u003eRefreshingly intense\u003c/B\u003e\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;Colleen Mondor, \u003cI\u003eBookslut\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"Smart and lively and thoughtful and moving, like a good Studs Terkel without encyclopedic pretensions.\" \u0026#151;\u003cB\u003eDaniel Handler\u003c/B\u003e, aka \u003cB\u003eLemony Snicket\u003c/B\u003e, author of the best-selling \u003cI\u003eA Series of Unfortunate Events\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cB\u003e\u0026#147;Full of rich details of contemporary Japan\u003c/B\u003e ... in the end readers should understand why Madame Butterfly no longer exists. Or perhaps never existed at all.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;\u003cB\u003eTodd Shimoda\u003c/B\u003e author of \u003cI\u003eThe Fourth Treasure\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003e365 Views of Mt. Fuji\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"An \u003cB\u003eeye-opening, detailed look at the private, intimate lives of Japanese women\u003c/B\u003e ... This is \u003cB\u003ean intelligent and authoritative work\u003c/B\u003e, covering everything from adultery to sex volunteers and the role of fortune tellers in Japanese romance. It is at once illuminating and entertaining, credible and so engrossing you will find it difficult to put down.\" \u0026#151; \u003cB\u003eRobert Whiting\u003c/B\u003e, author of \u003cI\u003eTokyo Underworld\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eThe Meaning of Ichiro\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eYou Gotta Have Wa\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eSumie Kawakami\u0026#8217;s \u003cI\u003eGoodbye Madame Butterfly\u003c/I\u003e is an intimate look at the sex lives of Japanese people from a female perspective. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction will shatter the myth of the pliant, coy Japanese woman and replace her with a complex, erotic, sexually charged and fiercely independent woman who struggles to find her place in a male-dominated society.\u003c/div\u003e
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