No, its not like that. In the collections longest and scariest story, An Exotic Marriage, Motoya, through her narrator, lands a flurry of punches against the oppressive domesticity of marriage. Mud Stuck to our Shoes: On The Insistence of Harm by Fernando Valverde, Edward Derby Yukiko Motoya's imagination is wild and rich in her eleven whimsical short stories in this book. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. . I didnt say what I was thinking, but he must have sensed it. . How History Claims Us: On Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley, Aumaine Rose Smith Marie Mockett takes umbrage, in her excellent Lit Hub essay Our Fairy Tales, Ourselves, with critics and philosophers whose pursuit of universal laws of narrative structure blind them to the expansive possibilities of literature. Both women, at the service of their partners desires, are reshaped by othersan easy way to become a stranger to yourself in Motoyas world. In The Women, a citys female population contracts a virus that turns them into homicidal hotties. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. At first, The Lonesome Bodybuilder appears most interested in chills and moods; I needed time for its feminism and its political threads to catch the light. 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. When the pair suffers their first fight, Tomokos husband collapseshis straw limbs crumble at her feetand she fantasizes about setting him on fire. My husband seemed anxious to make a snake ball with me. He currently lives in Washington, DC. . At other points, the couple are recast as ravenous snakes. Copyright 2018 by Yukiko Motoya. One night, after dinner, I was surprised to notice my husband engrossedin his iPad rather than the variety show playing on the TV. Michael Staley. -, "Motoya wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes. MEDIA REVIEWS. Left to their own devices, these characters may have been content with the status quo, but the universe Motoya builds taunts them with their secret motivations until theyre forced to confront them publicly. Motoya locates a venerable sense of ancestry and inherited duty in the storys young market trader. Her books have . Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/books/review/lonesome-bodybuilder-yukiko-motoya.html. At the story's beginning, he seems like a . Perhaps the most resonant stories are those about marriage; Motoya (a playwright as well as an author) excels in putting husband and wife through unusual trials. Any reader pursuing concrete examples of nimble writing and unconventional resolutions could do a hell of a lot worse than Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder, a collection of short stories that mangle and deform the familiar until it becomes something both wildly unexpected and deeply welcome. 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. [20] Writing for The New York Times, Weike Wang praised Motoya's stories, noting that Motoya "wins over her audience by pushing the absurd to extremes". I heard a tinkling sound like coins dropping into a piggy bank, which Id been hearing constantly all evening. Histeeth must have been in their right place, because they made achamping sound as he chewed. At their very heart, however, are everyday struggles that are not only typical in contemporary Japanese society, but identifiable around the world" -. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Characters change; literally, their facial features move, morph, disappear. His face was barely maintaining a form that could even berecognized as human. I wasexpecting some cutting-edge visual effects, but what I saw wasan image representing what looked like oceans and continents,drawn in simple lines like in old Nintendo games. [1] As a child she read mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edogawa Ranpo, as well as horror manga. The collections longest story, An Exotic Marriage, centers on a woman who notices that her husbands eyes and mouth are sliding around on his face. Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. [23] An English version of her play Vengeance can Wait, translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen, premiered in 2008 at the Best of Boroughs Festival in New York City. Q&A, which is presented as the deathbed ravings of a beauty columnist, is a meta delirium of tips, callbacks to previous stories, and rage. Story Comes From Place: On Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles, Jasmine V. Bailey Matthew D. Rodrigues's writing has appeared in Quill & Quire, The Hedgehog Review, and Fandor. 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. by Hey, give itback if youre not even going to play. My husband took the iPadfrom my hand and sank his head back to the game. Where does Motoya find lines like When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was? Asa Yoneda. I waited for something else to happen, but that was it. The question of why she reassembles him looms large, and implies a sort of complicity in misery, an experience common among Motoyas characters. () The writing itself is to be admired." Lingerie? Back to the gym she goes. $16.95. The Ductility of Person and Time in Saddiq Dzukogis Your Crib, My Qibla, Leslie Stonebraker After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. The option to explode a life or a story greatly appeals to her. Margaryta Golovchenko. On Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly. The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya (2018). Soft Skull Press. Yukiko Motoya's The Lonesome Bodybuilder is a refreshing reminder that fiction is an elastic medium, capable of stretching into new and surprising shapes. Her quickly buried feelings recall Sans mutating features. Idplanned to just wait for her, but I saw a banner for the SpecialSelection Four-Eel Taste Test Bento and was tempted into gettingone. Eventually, Id start to feel in danger of root rot, and would hurriedly break the pot and uproot myself. A pulsing sense of anxiety pushes the story forward as readers are left to reconcile her male staffs tepid ignorance with her panicked interior monologue. So you collect the money, and then what?, When youve collected enough, you can buy your own land., You buy your own land, and then? The author reaches, with language, toward a reader who may or may not be there. (Several tales allude to Kwaidan, a ghoulish anthology compiled by the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn, in 1904.). [6][7], In 2002, prompted by a magazine editor's invitation, Motoya made her fiction debut with the short story Eriko to zettai (Eriko and Absolutely). Eine Hausfrau wird zur Bodybuilderin, aber ihrem arbeitsschtigen Ehemann fallen die neuen Youre talking about him a lot lately., Thats exactly what I told Uwano. Near But Not Touching: On The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies, Tracy Zeman Everyday objects and places are transformed into odd salves for the hyper-fractured lives of these characters, adding a mischievous streak to The Lonesome Bodybuilder. 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. What if thereends up being more of the bad? Fun and funny . Motoyas women exist most vividly in their own heads, a state of being that often leaves them feeling alone in a crowd. I dont remember where I read it. [4] From 2005 to 2006 Motoya was the Friday host for Nippon Broadcasting System's late night radio show All Night Nippon. Meanwhile, the reader watches each transformation and stab at connection. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. 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). The writing itself is to be admired. On Asylum by Jill Bialosky, Jehanne Dubrow Small discs ofdifferent colors twinkled all across the map. Exploring the struggle against alienation isnt new ground to tread in literature. On Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young, Kyle Wang So, for example, in the (US-)title story the narrator is inspired to take up bodybuilding, sculpting her body through intense exercise, after catching a boxing match her husband was watching on TV. The story ends on a note of limitlessness: Anything at all could turn out to be something beyond my wildest dreams.. The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Yukiko Motoyas The Lonesome Bodybuilder is available from Soft Skull Press. I was secretly impressed by Hakones story. 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. Each story begins unsuspectingly a clerk helps a woman in a changing room, a wife decides to go to the gym and, from these seemingly realistic setups, the magical and the surreal unfold. I guessed hemust be feeling needy. Asa Yoneda. From Apocalypse to Apocalypso: On An Ecotopian Lexicon, Ryan Lackey or When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In Yukiko Motoyas delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. My body was startingto coil, and I tried to stop thinking by closing my eyes even more tightly. 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. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. When I sat down next to him, the husband-like thing pickedup the TV remote and started flipping through channels. [22], Motoya continued writing and directing plays for her theatre company while also writing short stories and novels, and in 2006 she became the youngest person ever to win the Tsuruya Nanboku Memorial Award for Best Play, which she received for her play Snan (Distress). As a leashed man miserably admits, just before being yanked to mortal combat, This is all because of the desires of men like us. Such a desire, for a more exciting lover, has exciting effects: the women demand duels, then take their husbands and boyfriends down by the river to kill them. I carefully took a piece of each and placedthem on top of Hakones rice. 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. On A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill, Nicholas Bredie Even as The Lonesome Bodybuilder approaches its conclusion, new and winding pathways unfurl. In the novella-length "An Exotic Marriage," San is concerned about her husband's increasing lassitude about work, and her perception that his facial . 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. It settled to the floor in countless small clumps. Freed, he turns into a mountain peony. With frank sincerity, Motoya makes the exhausted clichs of marriage and intimacy literal, and thus, energetically strange. He seemed not to realize that anything was amiss, and simplylooked at me with his terrifyingly wide-set eyes, and said, Are they all gone?. [15], In 2016, on her fourth nomination, Motoya won the 154th Akutagawa Prize for her story Irui konin tan (Tales of Marriage to a Different Sort), in which a wife discovers that she and her husband look more and more alike as they grow older together. Maybe someone told it tome, a long time ago. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. It also indicates the range of Motoyas storytelling style by unveiling additional powers of suggestion and atmospheric description. . Soft Skull Press. Banners positioned around the floor advertised the Beat the Heat Bento Expo. Motoya likes her fiction to swerve, not drift or meander, and she doesnt have patience for wandering. I think?. [27][28] Starting in 2014 she was a regular host for Season 4 of the TBS Radio program "The Top 5". To get at the deeper themes of strained marriages, traditional gender roles and love, Motoya subverts tropes and allows her characters to inhabit bizarre and metaphorical trajectories. Youd just gotten braces, and you said the metal hurt and you couldnt eat anything. That only made the boundary between the skin of ourentwined bodies even hazier. 'These arresting, hyper-real stories linger in the imagination . Coins.. The Women makes the battle of the sexes literal, too, as women turn into garish embodiments of male desirebut stronger and deadlier. 2023 Cond Nast. He probably thought that once he and I became one,he would never again have to worry about being judged by others. After moving to Tokyo to study drama, she started the Motoya Yukiko Theater Company, whose plays she wrote and directed. Longenbachs Forever, Noah Warren There was no response. Between me and Senta, I mightend up swallowing him all in one big gulp.. 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. Other women in the book pursue men who are made of straw or advise each other to marry bicycle saddles. In the darkness, my husband swiftly removed my pajama bottoms. 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 . Yukiko Motoya is a writer, playwright, and stage director. Many of the characters seek lives yet unlived, or lives once lived but later forgotten. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. The Kenyon Review is supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Bodybuilder is the best example, and in An Exotic Marriage, a familiar notion of couples starting to look alike turns eerie. In "An Exotic Marriage," the collection's centerpiece, the narrator, Sen, marries a man who refuses to engage with the world. organisation Do you know the story of the snake ball? In the realms of Motoya, believable behavior is more destructive and upsetting than any surreal occurrence. Why dont you try a different game? Id ask, but hedonly say, I like this one.. Authenticity is a reclamation project, and her characters go to great lengths to prove their agency. Malleability can imply a womans weakness, or it can imply power. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is made up of 10 short stories, some barely three or four pages long, and a novella, "An Exotic Marriage". But Motoya's unique vision is still worth experiencing, and Yoneda's translation provides a clear and beautiful . 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. 209 pages. Such endings introduce a kind of ontological flexibility into the very structure of the storythey bring an essential playfulness to the work that is much more engaging and absorbing than a more rigid finale. 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. There was a tremor in my hand holding the paring knife. August 2021 Micro-Reviews, Christina Pugh I was folding laundry on the living room floor. Nevertheless, she feels invisible because her husband never notices her. As if to prove it, I could hardly recall the men Id been with before. One of Mocketts main foci is an introduction to Hayao Kawais suggestion of an aesthetic solution common in Japanese literature. And they eat and they eat at exactly the same speed, until theyre just two heads making a ball, and then they both get eaten up and disappear. Men entered into me through my roots like nutrients dissolved in potting soil. Some Googling I did found out that this was actually published as a novella . You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Check if your $16.95. For the narrator, San, a bored housewife whose husband ignores her in favor of TV and video games, anxiety is manifested literallyand strangely. His work has been published in Tin House Online, Nashville Review, Harvard Review, and Full Stop. [17] The prize-winning work became the title story of a collection of four stories published later that year by Kodansha. And so it is throughout: all these husbands are brutally banal in their ignorance, their apathies, and their cruelties. She looked like she was giving it some serious thought. Paper, $16.95. But it only applies when the snakes consume each other at the same rate. the Akutagawa Prize, for An Exotic Marriage in 2016. 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But I guess that cant be right. Maybe I dont really know, myself. In Fitting Room, a saleswoman attends day and night to a mysterious customer who refuses to leave a fitting room. The reader wonders: Am I the strange one? A draft blows through the talesloneliness, the most spectral emotion. 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. In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. ISBN: 9781472154354. The unsettling way people can lose themselves to mundanity and wrestle to reclaim their selfhood is best illustrated in the novella-length An Exotic Marriage. Originally published on its own, it earned Motoya the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2016 and was translated for this collection. Perhaps its greatest gifts are its aesthetic solutions, whichthough at most tangential to successful western narrativesoften feel like deep breathsconstructed benisons where a reader can get out from under the storm. English translation copyright 2018 by Asa Yoneda. Maybe thats why its so easy being with you. Even when she poses in front of him in a micro bikini, her hair now short, her body filled out and covered in tanning oil, he asks: Whats that? Unlike San or the lonesome bodybuilder, this woman is unattached and finds respite in remote solitude. On Memorial Drive: A Daughters Memoir by Natasha Trethewey, John Wall Barger One woman puts it to her husband directly: You can stop being husband shaped now! Asa Yoneda. Her eyes were focused on the booths cloud-glass partition, but her mouth was still chewing away steadily at the steak. A married couple begin to look like each other, and the wife wonders how she can prevent it. Her only companionship comes from a pack of mysterious dogs that, unbeknownst to her, terrorize the nearby village until there is no one left. I finished towel-dryingmy hair and stepped out onto the balcony to bring in the laundryId hung out that afternoon. and then the short story "The Exotic Marriage" is a whopping eighty five pages long. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Asa Yoneda, This page was last edited on 18 November 2022, at 09:31. The Dogs avoids such risks by dint of its elusiveness and subtlety. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. At the end of a story with an aesthetic solution, the narrative action is suspendedrather than resolvedand the author leaves the audience with a natural image that resists interpretation. . I remembered that once, many years ago, Id asked Santa Claus for a present: to wake up and have the whole world to myself, she recalls as she wanders the ghost town. Motoya also discerns the way the pursuit of freedom can be corrupted into cruelty or madness. Motoya Yukiko, general information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author. He pulled the strip of squid from his mouth, and said, Itsbecause youre a housewife, San. Yukiko Motoya was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1979. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. The zelkovas planted in a clump justbeyond the railing were overgrown with green leaves that lookedlike a neglected hairdo. 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