Book Club

JETAA Portland Book Club meets once a month to discuss works from Japanese authors and books related to Japan and Japanese culture.

Join us for this month’s discussion:

August Book Club
Date:  Saturday, August 28
Location:  Jade Teahouse & Patisserie (7912 SE 13th, Portland, OR 97203)
Time:  1:00pm
Title:  The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata

September Book Club
Date:  Sunday, September 19
Location:  Jade Teahouse & Patisserie (7912 SE 13th, Portland, OR 97203)
Time:  1:00pm
Title:  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

You can check availability of the Book Club titles by visiting the following websites:

• Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com
• Powell’s Books: http://www.powells.com/
• Multnomah County Library: http://www.multcolib.org/
• Clackamas County Library: http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/lib/
• Washington County Library: http://www.wccls.org/

36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan by Cathy Davidson
American Fuji by Sara Backer
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Only Woman in the Room by Beate Sirota Gordon
Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra

All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Tokunaga
Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro Kawaguchi
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

Exploring Japanese Literature: Reading Mishima, Tanizaki, and Kawabata in the Original by Giles Murray
Japanland: The Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Life in the Cul-De-Sac by Senji Kuroi
Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya
The Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Dreaming Pachinko by Isaac Adamson
Translucent Tree by Nobuko Takagi
Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Kawada

About

JETAA Portland Chapter
JETAA (The JET Program Alumni Association) was created to serve the bonds of friendship developed by the program participants. JETAA’s purpose is to achieve, through its activities, a broader and deeper understanding between Japan the the countries participating on the program.