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Will Aitken's Realia - a smarmy, gangly Canadian woman encroaches on the Japan of the 80s and falls for an androgynous pop star; they do all sorts of drugs and confront their pasts in oblique, unsatisfying ways. Far from the hokey chick-lit its premise implies, but nothing remarkable either. Many moons ago, I basically forgot about it with a fourth left and picked it up again yesterday with the intent of finishing the unfinished in my collection so that I can move onto other things. Mostly big and easy to grasp, morbid and wry, but annoyingly glib in spots. Soggy end, too. That said, a fun read, though it's a book I probably never would've read had I not recognized the author as my History of Film teacher (who is among the coolest dudes I've ever met) and snatched it on impulse at a place where unsold books go to die.
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