"You’re such an egg, Mike,” a Chinese friend back in Toronto once told me.

“An egg?”

“Yeah, an egg. You know, white on the outside, yellow on the inside. It’s like you’re Asian, but you’re white.”

- an excerpt from "I Am an Egg"

 

Tamago is a collection of short stories about how the author became infatuated with Japan as a little boy watching animated TV shows, and then learned to write and speak Japanese as a teenager, and his personal experiences in the Land of the Rising Sun after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan



ISBN: 978-1-927023-44-0