Dizzy Sushi

by Melissa J. White

FINALIST: 2014 NM-AZ Book Awards. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. DIZZY SUSHI is many things at once--a young woman's travels in Japan, a pilgrimage to a source of Zen, an inner journey, a love story, and a search for home and family. At a dizzy sushi bar tasty tidbits float round and round and this book is much the same--insight, detail, image, feeling and experience are all waiting to nourish the reader. Melissa J. White has captured the experience of Japan in the late 1980s and a world at the height of international economic influence. From the humorous potential of language to cultural misunderstanding and also appreciation, this memoir is full of moments both rough and tender.

311 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2013

About the author

Melissa is the author of "Dizzy Sushi: A Young Woman's Journal of Japan" which was a 2014 Finalist in the Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards, and winner of the Recursos Discovery Prize. Her short screenplay, "ID" won first place at the Rhode Island International Film Festival—the largest public film festival in New England and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences qualifying event. She is also the author of the novella, "Angel Someone" about the grief and acceptance of losing a family pet. Melissa graduated from St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, in Western Philosophy and is a paralegal and book designer in Santa Fe, NM.


"Because I was born two minutes before sunrise, I enjoy writing in the darkness just before dawn. Having lived most of my life in Santa Fe, the wee hours of the morning, on a moonless night, allow the sweeping stars, planets and constellations to beam down on my keyboard, inspiring, humbling."

Reviews

[Raymond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Travelog, cultural, adventure and a glance into ones inner self while all while looking into a window of Japan that has most likely closed. Trying to figure out what is this person looking for and are her companions looking for the same thing? Shocker at the end that makes me wonder how is this all going to work out.