Getting Genki In Japan: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo

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Getting Genki in Japan is a collection of illustrated essays of a Mom's absurd and exhilarating adventures living in the Far East. From bewildered and befuddled to wise, these narratives recount the journey of cultural discoveries, experiences, and follies of a newcomer to Japan; including misidentifying food, mispronouncing Japanese, mispantomiming for necessities, and finally figuring out how to flush the Japanese toilet.

Karen Pond worked as a catalog copywriter for LL Bean before moving to Tokyo with her family, where she chronicled her culture shock with essays that appeared in iNTOUCH Magazine, Tokyo Families Magazine, and Being A Broad Magazine. Karen still lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her husband, three sons, and their border collie Fergus.

"There's no funny writer I know who can poke fun at her life in Japan better than this author. If Rudyard Kipling said, "East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet," Karen has definitely cracked the code to finally getting the two to laugh together!" -Joy Saison, Tokyo Families magazine "This is a funny book. I would get this book for the funny chapters." -City Book Review