I think thats the image I have of marriage. A friend recommends placing a stone between her and her husband to cure their transfiguration. Histeeth must have been in their right place, because they made achamping sound as he chewed. Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the stories themselvesand the logic, or lack thereof, within their sentencesare reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka . In The Women, a citys female population contracts a virus that turns them into homicidal hotties. 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. 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. Take whatever form you want to be! The distending body of my husband exploded with a loud pop. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. Motoya is restless among the halls of convention; she appreciates the classic elements of short stories, but is eager to deface them with a brightly colored Sharpie. Readers who are familiar with Japanese folklore, manga, or anime will probably find some of the themes to be mundane - there is much reminiscent of Rumiko Takahashi in the more fantastic stories, like The Dogs or An Exotic Marriage. Yukiko Motoya's The Lonesome Bodybuilder is a refreshing reminder that fiction is an elastic medium, capable of stretching into new and surprising shapes. Winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Picnic in the Storm is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearless young writers. The stories collected in Yukiko Motoya . Her novel Funuke domo kanashimi no ai o misero (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) So, for example, the husband in 'The Straw Husband', in a relationship otherwise most like any other, is really made of straw ("yes, that straw, stalks of dried rice or wheat, plant matter used as fodder for farm animals, or for bedding -- tied into bundles and rolled into a human shape"), while the narrator of 'The Dogs' describes how: "I didn't like beds, so I slept standing up, leaning against the windowsill" (apparently every night). You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. She comes to have a community of people who support her, and her bulging musclesher arms looked huge enough to snap a log in halfearn her a following at the natural-beauty store where she works. . Motoya founded her own theater company and has also set aside time for various other endeavors, like hosting a radio show and a televised documentary series. Her only companionship comes from a pack of mysterious dogs that, unbeknownst to her, terrorize the nearby village until there is no one left. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. Yeah. My husband nodded while sucking on a strip of dried squid. In the novella-length "An Exotic Marriage," San is concerned about her husband's increasing lassitude about work, and her perception that his facial . 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. Motoya was born in Hakusan, Ishikawa. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Didnt that explain why I didnt much mind whether it was a husbandI was living with or something only resembling a husband? 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. Her books have been published or are forthcoming in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, . The Lonesome Bodybuilder (published as Picnic in the Storm in the UK .) 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. Soft Skull Press. And like so many arbitrary signifiers of taste, style, or quality, they are focused exclusively on a western tradition. At face value, the stories are fun and funny to read, but weightier questions lurk below the surface. On Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young, Kyle Wang 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 . Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/books/review/lonesome-bodybuilder-yukiko-motoya.html. Anyone can read what you share. The answers to questions like that, for example. By Yukiko Motoya. But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . On Exclusions by Noah Falck, Jim Johnstone The course of that career certainly indicates a restless curiosity. She admits that she has lost confidence in herself, living with a perfectionist husband (who doesn't pay that much attention to her, long oblivious even to the dramatic physical change she undergoes). The Lake Hamana eel was firmer and more succulent than the one from the Mikawa region. On Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade, Matt McBride 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. Motoya wards off fatigue by peppering this buffet of patriarchal cruelty with humorsurprising enough and sharp enough to elicit as many belly laughs as grimaces while reading. The fact that I couldnt stop, even if I tried, was proof that it wasnt actually a matter of anything as benign as acting or pretending.. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. by Yukiko Motoya ; translated by . I was feigning calm, but my voice came outhigher than normal. Snake ball! Her books have . . How could he even see straight? It seemed that all he was doing was almost robotically placing hisfinger on the discs. Asa Yoneda. Whenever Id gotten close to someone in the past, Id had the feeling that little by little I was being replaced. Arent you worried? Look at the bottom of the screen. Touch one and see, he said, so I tried pressing on a browndisc with my finger. Motoyas prose advances a similar principle. "Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket Without Laughing", trans. Small discs ofdifferent colors twinkled all across the map. "), and dedicates herself to it, with considerable success. An insidious exchange of traits and gender stereotypes unfolds and the boundaries between the two characters become porous. Theres a Jungian undercurrent in Motoyas writing, which seems to prize self-actualization as a way to mendor endtroubled relationships. The same goes for San, whose face melts into new patterns. By then I was actively feeding my bodyto him to be devoured. [12][13] Motoya subsequently won the 7th Kenzaburo Oe Prize for her 2012 collection Arashi no pikunikku (Picnic in the Storm),[14] and the 27th Mishima Yukio Prize for her 2013 novel Jibun wo suki ni naru houhou. The climate crisis demands a form of literary expression that lifts it out of the realm of intellectual knowing and lodges it deep in readers bodies. Every time Inoticed myself acting as though that was who Id been all along,a chill went up my spine. From The Lonesome Bodybuilder. Other women in the book pursue men who are made of straw or advise each other to marry bicycle saddles. One of Mocketts main foci is an introduction to Hayao Kawais suggestion of an aesthetic solution common in Japanese literature. 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 . . Didnt you say his ex-wife wasreally good-looking?, Really good-looking. 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. The other persons ideas, interests, andhabits would gradually take the place of my own. Tomokos animosity toward her straw husband is as brief as it is startling. 224 pp. 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. Although the stories are often funny, theyre not sarcastic or ironic, and Motoyas not really kidding. . But I guess that cant be right. . . New York, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2018. Her work has been adapted multiple times for film. Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. The story ends on a note of limitlessness: Anything at all could turn out to be something beyond my wildest dreams.. [29] As of 2017 she is co-host of the Fuji TV documentary series 7 Rules. There are two snakes, and they each start cannibalizing the other ones tail. The narrator of An Exotic Marriage notices that she and her husband are beginning to look alike, but her husbands investment in game shows is the greater threat to her happiness and autonomy. English translation copyright 2018 by Asa Yoneda. This is abundantly illustrated in "An Exotic Marriage," a novella about a woman, San, who begins to fear that her husband's identity is blending with her own. I sat down on the couch and looked at the iPad screen. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is made up of 10 short stories, some barely three or four pages long, and a novella, "An Exotic Marriage". In the wonderful title story, the narrator returns from the grocery store to find her husband sitting on the couch, watching a boxing match. In the title story, a husband watches a boxing match and asks his wife what she thinks of his body. Youre talking about him a lot lately., Thats exactly what I told Uwano. Motoyas women exist most vividly in their own heads, a state of being that often leaves them feeling alone in a crowd. We support credit card, debit card and PayPal payments. Youd just gotten braces, and you said the metal hurt and you couldnt eat anything. . Her husbands features are always shifting on his face, and soon he resembles, variously, a monster, a snake, a new creature, his wife, and then, finally, a mountain peony. 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. I dont remember where I read it. Her stories are about relationships between men and womenseemingly familiar territory, but made strange by the intrusion of surreal elements. by Michael Heller and James Salzman, Zach Savich 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. Other nuances arrive in Paprika Jiro, a story that conveys a fondness for mercantile traditions. () 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." The complete review's Review: . Michael Staley. . If the reader has trouble picturing this, there is a cartoon diagram to assist. Youve banked some money., Sure enough, there was a number at the lower-right-hand corner of the screen. My mission is to stay as free and unfettered as possible. Yukiko Motoya so commented on her career and creative process during an interview for Granta. . Wed found a table in the seating area of the department stores food hall. 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. Published in English by Soft Skull Press. I thought perhaps the gamegot more interesting the longer you played, but whenever I lookedover my husbands shoulder, the screen always looked the same. 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. How had I ended up married to a completely different species of being from me? San wonders to herself, before her features begin to mutate too. He says his ex-wifes been sending him strange garbled emails recently, I said. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. Okay, I heard a muffled voice say. In these contexts, Motoyas characters come to recognize the possibilities theyve denied themselves. This really takes me back. On the screen, a quiz show was posing a question about an ad that had been on heavy rotation just after wed gotten married. She has glimmering pink hair, shes an unstoppable ninja, she fights bad guys in the garden every day. In Fitting Room, a saleswoman attends day and night to a mysterious customer who refuses to leave a fitting room. All rights reserved. On Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero, Benjamin Woodard I didnt say what I was thinking, but he must have sensed it. His work has been published in Tin House Online, Nashville Review, Harvard Review, and Full Stop. Margaryta Golovchenko. Facial features intermittently disassemble, prompting Sans panic. He has received fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. Her quickly buried feelings recall Sans mutating features. Claire Crews Motoyas book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilders husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster. March 2021 Micro-Reviews, Amy Hassinger [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. I recalled seeing a circular in the mailroomabout plans to prune the plantings. Motoya also discerns the way the pursuit of freedom can be corrupted into cruelty or madness. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. ISBN: 9781472154354. Coins.. Matthew D. Rodrigues's writing has appeared in Quill & Quire, The Hedgehog Review, and Fandor. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. You can have two slices of my steak if you give me some ofyour eel.. On The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy, Asa Drake Motoya was born in snowy Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan but later set out for Tokyo, where she completed an acting course and worked as a voice actor for a spell before deciding to zero in on writing novels and plays. Motoyas eerie touches allow the characters to embrace inconvenient and irrational parts of themselves; at moments when self-doubt is making them flounder, these otherworldly intrusions act as a corrective force. The pears?. Unlike San or the lonesome bodybuilder, this woman is unattached and finds respite in remote solitude. In the collection's longest and scariest story, "An Exotic Marriage," Motoya, through her narrator, lands a flurry of punches against the oppressive domesticity . You must be concerned, said Hakone, sounding anything but as she took a pair of disposable chopsticks out of their packet. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. -, "Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. 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. And in The Dogs, the protagonist gains a sort of freedom, but this sunders threads both social and psychic; something ambiguously terrible rises in their place. On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, Patrick Davis [5] She appears in the ending sequences of FLCL during credits, in which she's listed as model. On The Renunciations by Donika Kelly, John Bonanni One night, after dinner, I was surprised to notice my husband engrossedin his iPad rather than the variety show playing on the TV. university Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). "In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . Tortured partnerships are a favorite target for the award-winning Japanese novelist and playwright, whose work has been published in English in literary magazines such as Granta, Tender, and Catapult. Unlike the alienation other characters face within the context of relationships, she is literally all alone, but this only strengthens her sense of self. On We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, Jessica Tanck In I Called You by Name, a woman in a business meeting is plagued by the certainty that only she can see a figure lurking in the shadows. In 'Typhoon' people take flight with their umbrellas in a great storm -- so many that eventually the narrator finds: "as I scanned the sky, I spotted loads of tiny human figures floating among the dark clouds". What if thereends up being more of the bad? 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. It also indicates the range of Motoyas storytelling style by unveiling additional powers of suggestion and atmospheric description. He is villainous without even the dignity of intention. Fun and funny . During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. But she doesnt want the menshe wants the muscles. Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Ganders GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Chris Via Let the cat do it. One woman tries to compensate for her husbands lack of confidence by listing all my own faults. A second character, an executive, wishes to speak her mind at a meeting but fears that she hasnt established herself among her colleagues as the kind of person who could say that sort of thing. The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertionof both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. Her command of vivid detail comes through in close studies of perception and psychology, and in the conjuring up of outsized brutalities. [30], In 2013 Motoya married the poet, lyricist and film director Kite Okachimachi. Hakone hummed and said nothing. She endures this at first but later partakes in it, finding herself pulled into her husbands orbithis daily consumption of variety shows and deep-fried food. was published in 2005. In the darkness, my husband swiftly removed my pajama bottoms. He seemed to be enjoying eating me up so much that the sensation of it spread to me, and I felt as though I were tasting my own self. Asa Yoneda. This normalization gives the stories their irony and their sense of being just a bit off, like a lingering scent of formaldehyde. But it would have been suspicious for me to say no. [17] The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha. [9][11] Though Nurui doku did not win the Akutagawa Prize, it won the 33rd Noma Literary New Face Prize. . On Asylum by Jill Bialosky, Jehanne Dubrow Translated by Asa Yoneda. I was folding laundry on the living room floor. Banners positioned around the floor advertised the Beat the Heat Bento Expo. Copyright 2018 by Yukiko Motoya. Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren Many of the characters seek lives yet unlived, or lives once lived but later forgotten. San isnt the only woman in Motoyas stories who feels neglected and vaguely undefined. The Kenyon Review is supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Infinite Entanglements in Allison Cobbs Plastic: An Autobiography, Elizabeth Bailey The executive who holds her tongue at the meeting also sees, or dreams that she sees, faces in inanimate objects; she suffers from a condition called pareidolia, in which the mind perceives illusory patterns in random stimuli. 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. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. He's a founding member of Literary Starbucks (2016) and a recovering poetry editor with a chronic crush on nouns that get used as adjectives. and then the short story "The Exotic Marriage" is a whopping eighty five pages long. Is that the problem? I asked. Thats the image I have of marriagethat both me and the other person, as we are now, will disappear before we can do anything about it. I thought. I decide who I am, and never consider other possibilities. In another story, I Called You by Name, an ad exec compares her past and present, recalling her earlier determination to never allow herself to be bound by anything as common as common sense.. The wife tries her best to boost his ego, fails, then decides to take up bodybuilding. I fled from thetinkling of coins falling and the suckling sound of him chewingon dried squid. Hey, do we have any more of those pears someone gave us theother day? He pulled the strip of squid from his mouth, and said, Itsbecause youre a housewife, San. Motoyas collection is a bold broadcast: fiction should be wild and daring, and less beholden to the rigors of logic than to the power and potency of surprise. Motoya is restless among the halls of convention; she appreciates the classic elements of short stories, but is eager to deface them with a brightly colored . Yukiko Motoya, trans. Malleability can imply a womans weakness, or it can imply power. [27][28] Starting in 2014 she was a regular host for Season 4 of the TBS Radio program "The Top 5". Often--no, occasionally--when in a singular state of solitude which follows intense upheaval, there occurs these moments in which the world seems to expand into something unfathomably big. 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. They operate, she writes, with a cripplingly limited understanding of what successful story structure is and is not, and what ought to feel satisfying. Their understandingsand ours, though we may try to resistare the products of cultural constructs, not natural laws. [16] At the prize ceremony the press commented on her mismatched socks, leading Motoya to admit that she had not expected to win, and had rushed to the prize ceremony without any special preparation. 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