When Jane decides to leave her Wall Street job to join her husband Pete in Tokyo she unwittingly places herself on a trajectory that challenges her marriage, her career and risks her very life. This is her emotional journey of love, betrayal, hope and disillusionment. A family's secret atrocities and treachery are revealed amid the financial manipulation of the Tokyo capital market bubble. Jane finds renewal in an unexpected place.
"The anomie of the ex-pat in Japan is captured in 'Lost in Translation,' and in this book." James Fallows, The Atlantic
"More twists and turns than a Tokyo alley." Mary Lord, former Tokyo bureau chief U.S. News & World Report