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  Photo Credit: Matt Schumaker    Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. If You Follow Me  BUY NOW Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past . . . or anything else, for that matter. If You Follow Me is at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. Alive with vibrant and unforgettable characters—from an ambitious town matchmaker to a high school student-cum-rap artist wannabe with an addiction to self-tanning lotion—it guides readers over cultural bridges even as it celebrates the awkward, unlikely triumph of the human spirit. "I love, love, love IF YOU FOLLOW ME. It's fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can't recommend it highly enough." -Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE "In this beautiful novel, what is most "foreign" to Marina turns out to be her complex relationships with those she thought she knew best. Malena Watrous's writing is sharp-edged and generous, tragic and true. I would follow her anywhere." -Katharine Noel, author of Halfway House  Request a signed copy: sarahl@keplers.com 'If You Follow Me,' by Malena Watrous Nina Schuyler, Special to The Chronicle Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/23/DD9V1CI5IQ.DTL#ixzz0j2YhlNZl   Co-sponsored by: