Martinson, Lars

Expats writing about teaching and traveling in Asia: nothing new, but how many of them take years to capture the actual look of their surroundings alongside the expected culture clashes and the feelings of dislocation and loneliness? That's the story behind writer/illustrator Martinson's three-volume Tōnoharu, the saga of a young American working in the titular rural Japanese village as an assistant junior high school teacher...

Gr 10 Up—Dan, a depressed and lonely American, is teaching English in Japan...