Bicycle Days

Alec Stern, a newly minted Yate graduate, is on assigment in Tokyo, staying with a Japanese family. Infatuated with Japan since he was small, he desperately wants to make this foreign place his own ? and in the process, to distance himself from his ruptured past.

In Tokyo he struggles to master Japanese ways in a series of sharp and funny vignettes. He also earns the trust and companionship of his Japanese family?s infinitely patient and lonely mother; his hard-boiled American boss; and Kiyoko Kawashima, a woman considered too old to be of interest to Japanese men, and whose beauty stuns Alec.