Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015
Time: 6:00pm Registration Opens (Drinks & Catching up)
7:00pm Dinner, 8:00pm Presentation
Place: 10th Floor Hilton Osaka
Cost: ¥5,000 - Members
¥7,000 - Non-Members (Women Only)
RSVP: By October 22, 2015
(note the menu selections after the speaker bio below)
Join us in October with Tracy Slater to learn about publishing as an expat in Japan and hear excerpts from her recently-published book The Good Shufu.
About the talk
What’s is like not being able to read, write, have a conversation with the neighbors, drive a car, or go to the bank by yourself? In other words, a gaijin housewife in Osaka? Well, Tracy wrote a book about it! Tracy will share with us a few anecdotes from her book and answer questions about the process of being published in Japan as an expat. One lucky member will receive a free copy of her book.
About the book
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self & Home on the Far Side of the World, was published in hardcover in June 2015 by Penguin Random House’s Putnam imprint and is forthcoming in paperback this winter. A Japanese version is also slated for release in Summer 2016. The book has been named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and a National Geographic “great new read.”
About the speaker
Tracy Slater is a writer caught between her home in Boston and her husband's in Japan. Once upon a time, she founded the award-winning global literary series Four Stories, and taught writing and gender studies at various Boston-area universities and in men's prisons throughout Massachusetts. Then, in 2005, within a matter of months, she went from being a highly independent woman in Boston with a Ph.D., to a gaijin housewife in Osaka. Then she wrote a book about it.
Tracy and her husband and baby moved to the Tokyo area last year. She still misses Osaka–and FEW Kansai!–and is delighted to be back for this event.
*** Menu ***
<Fish>
Deep fried nicoise vegetables aumoniere in spring roll, semi- dry fig and sweet potato terrine
Pumpkin soup Lady Curzon style in demi-cup
Sauteed sea bass fillet with mushroom duxelles-red wine sauce, fried polenta and root vegetables
<Meat>
Deep fried nicoise vegetables aumoniere in spring roll, semi- dry fig and sweet potato terrine
Pumpkin soup Lady Curzon style in demi-cup
Breaded chicken breast stuffed with chicken liver pate, tomato coulis, fried polenta and root vegetables
<Vegetarian & Vegan Meal >
Deep fried nicoise vegetables aumoniere in spring roll, semi- dry fig and sweet potato terrine
Pumpkin soup Lady Curzon style in demi-cup
Mushroom and root vegetable risotto
and
Dessert: Pumpkin pudding with coffee mascarpone cream
Vegan Dessert: Pomegranate flavored pear compote
Coffee or Tea
