Atomweight by Sasagawa, Emi

Emi Sasagawa

Atomweight

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When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable 'good girl' discovers she's a fighter. Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done...

When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable 'good girl' discovers she's a fighter.

Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done what her loving but demanding multiracial family expects. Far from her Vancouver home, she adjusts to life in London---studies, friends and a relationship with a wealthy but closeted Asian woman. Life is demanding, but Aki is coping until a violent incident triggers an unexpected response in the young Japanese-Latina-Canadian woman. She discovers that brutal bar-fighting relieves her stress and she begins a dangerous dual existence--obedient and accommodating by day and brawling by night.

This is a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures, traditions and values that also explores issues of sexual identity and violence.

Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories in BC's lower mainland. She is currently a Communications Manager at UBC's Faculty of Arts and is completed a Creative Writing MFA at the university. Emi is also an award-winning journalist who has reported on issues including housing and homelessness, mental health and marijuana legalization. Her writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post to Room. A resident of Vancouver, Atomweight is her first novel.

Genre
Fiction
Pages
260
Publisher
Tidewater Press
Publication Date
May 4, 2023
ISBN
9781990160165