Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries by Tim Anderson

I have listened to an audible version of this book and found it very very absorbing and interesting indeed. The book is written by a very proud and very American gay Tim Anderson, and that for me made the narration rich, funny and captivating. The book in every way is able to easily achieve its objective by selling Tokyo as a vibrant city full of inconstantcies  with the American culture it tries and copies. The book reads like a diary and a travelogue at times going through the authors time spent teaching English to the Japanese people. There are chapters about food, partying, hospitality, karaoke, relationships nicely juxtaposed with similar experiences with the American culture. The narrative comes out very sincere and left a warm after glow. I certainly managed to acquire quite a bit of respect for the gay writer after this listening.