Rip It Up Jean-Martin Bauer Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness

Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal

separate the gossipy teapots from the kind-of-flaming swords

and a present day textured by the psychic and physical violence inflicted on black life

With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general

in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet

Rip It Up Jean-Martin Bauer Jayber Crow's acquaintance with lonelinessThe Akutagawa prize winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down and out wannabe debonair who ekes