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Cherry Whip: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
The funny and tragic story of a Japanese jazz musician's first encounter with America, presented here in its 20th Anniversary edition. A young man who overthinks everything but doesn't understand himself, Hiroshi encounters unexpected adversity and faces destruction unless he can figure out who he really is. Hiroshi's struggle for self-acceptance is a tale with universal resonance.
The 20th Anniversary edition of a novel whose reputation has continued to grow over the years.Praise for Cherry
"Whip smart... humane and warm" ~ Time Out Chicago"A marvellous novel" ~ Curled Up With A Good Book
"Moving and sexy and funny in fresh ways" ~ Jay Rubin, Editor, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories and translator of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"A terrific and fascinating character study" ~Estella's Revenge
Michael Antman is the author of the novels Cherry Whip and Everything Solid Has a Shadow and the co-author, with Irina Velitskaya, of the forthcoming novel A Distant Place of Slaughter. He is an urban photographer, poet, and book and theatre critic, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing. He is the former Global Head of Marketing for a Fortune 100 Company. He lived in Japan for two and a half years, and now makes his home in Chicago.
The 20th Anniversary edition of a novel whose reputation has continued to grow over the years.Praise for Cherry
"Whip smart... humane and warm" ~ Time Out Chicago"A marvellous novel" ~ Curled Up With A Good Book
"Moving and sexy and funny in fresh ways" ~ Jay Rubin, Editor, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories and translator of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"A terrific and fascinating character study" ~Estella's Revenge
Michael Antman is the author of the novels Cherry Whip and Everything Solid Has a Shadow and the co-author, with Irina Velitskaya, of the forthcoming novel A Distant Place of Slaughter. He is an urban photographer, poet, and book and theatre critic, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing. He is the former Global Head of Marketing for a Fortune 100 Company. He lived in Japan for two and a half years, and now makes his home in Chicago.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2025
About the author
Michael Antman
5 books23 followersMichael Antman is the author of the novels
Cherry Whip
(ENC Press, 2004),
Everything Solid has a Shadow
(Amika Press, 2017), and the forthcoming memoir Searching for the Seagull Motel, and is a two-time finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. He also is the Global Head of Marketing for a Fortune 500 company.
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