My Brother’s Husband (GN 1 of 2)

Release date: 2017-05-02
Suggested retail price: $24.95
Age rating: 13+

ISBN-10: 1101871512 1101871512
ISBN-13: 9781101871515 9781101871515

Description:
Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change 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 and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it.

(added on 2017-05-18, modified on 2017-05-18)

• Reviewed by Rebecca Silverman (May 17, 2017)

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