He follows the erupting front of cherry blossoms as they burst into bloom in a seasonal ripple that tantalizes the Japanese psyche each spring. After a few years of teaching in Japan, Will Ferguson set out to do the unthinkable hitchhike the length of the country, from Cape Sata in the south to Hokkaido at the northernmost tip. TimesĬultures collide when a Western journalist takes the slow road to Hokkaido. O’Rourke ever had an extraterrestrial Satanic love child, it would probably write like Will Ferguson.’ L.A. Ferguson is a very gifted writer.’ Bill Bryson ‘If Douglas Adams and P.J. Who still remember how to laugh without turning off their brains.’ Jonathan Coe, author of The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up! ‘Hilarious…įerguson serves up his true thematic feast.’ The Globe and Mail ‘Mr.
The nature of True Evil exposed.’ Anthony Bourdain ‘A must read, in short, for people…
‘Mean, wonderful, hilarious, both a poisonously funny satire and dead on indictment. Ferguson’s first novel is a masterpiece of comic fiction, a must for anyone who has choked on Chicken Soup for the Soul or ever wanted to kill Dr. Tupak Soiree’s doorstopper becomes a very unique thing: a self help book that actually works, and it launches a chain of events that will have enormous consequences not just on Edwin’s life but for the world at large. Without thinking, and in need of something to report, Edwin begins to extol the virtues of What I Learned on the Mountain, and the excitement around the table is palpable. However, during an editorial meeting Edwin is confronted by a questioning publisher, one desperate for the next big thing. Edwin’s cynicism about self help books, coupled with his filthy mood that morning, results in his dismissing Tupak Soiree’s What I Learned on the Mountain in the most ignominious fashion: he doesn’t even bother to reply. When an enormous self help manuscript arrives on the desk of Edwin de Valu, a stressed out, overworked, and underpaid editor at New York’s Panderic Press, its fate seems destined for the bin. From the author of the critically acclaimed Hokkaido Highway Blues comes this hysterically funny debut novel, a searing and compulsive satire on the concept of self help and contemporary America.
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