Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan
An illustrated travel journal exploring the food, fashion and culture of modern day Japan. The summer before she turned sixteen, author/illustrator Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. Through charming illustrations, photos, and musings, Christine takes...
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An illustrated travel journal exploring the food, fashion and culture of modern day Japan. The summer before she turned sixteen, author/illustrator Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. Through charming illustrations, photos, and musings, Christine takes us on a journey through modern Japan: she explores the fashion hub of Harajuku; she hunts down geisha in Kyoto; she eats the best sushi of her life in Tsukiji; and she meets many interesting characters along the way. Halfway Home is an engaging—and often hilarious—look at a fascinating country and a girl rediscovering her roots.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780990701408 (0990701409)
ASIN: 0990701409
Publish date: 2014-11-07
Publisher: Naruhodo Press
Pages no: 102
Edition language: English
Another graphic novel travelogue, this time of a 15 year old visiting her grandparents in Japan. Though Christine Inzer was born in Japan she's spent most of her life in the U.S. She revisits some favorite places, including a fast food chain called Mosburger, while also visiting cultural sites and...
Halfway Home is an utterly charming, very slim, self-published graphic novel. The author-illustrator, Christine Mari Inzer, a senior in high school, was just shy of sixteen when she spent eight weeks with her maternal grandparents in a small city outside of Tokyo. Because it's more travel-diary than...
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