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...
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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: kindle
ISBN:
9780990701415
ASIN: B00PMG5JV2
Publish date: 2014-11-13
Publisher: Naruhodo Press
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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