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Monday, December 25, 2017

Holiday Review: MY BROTHER'S HUSBAND

True to form, I end these holiday reviews with a story that's all about family and acceptance, as well as yet another stand-out LGBTQ-themed book from another unexpected source.

MY BROTHER'S HUSBAND (Ototo no Otto), by Gengoroh Tagame.  First published in 2014 and first published in North America in 2017.




PLOT:

Yaichi leads a largely comfortable life raising his daughter Kana, even as he tries to come to terms with the recent death of his estranged twin brother Ryoji.  Then one day his brother's widower shows up at his door, a big, burly, gentle ginger giant named Mike.  Mike has come to Japan to learn about his late husband's family and early life, but his presence ends up forcing Yaichi to come to terms with not only his own prejudices, but his own past as well.