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Jackson Alone

Jackson Alone

Almony, Kalau
Ando, Jose

Hardcover

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.95

ISBN10: 1641296364
ISBN13: 9781641296366
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Four Black Japanese gay men team up against a culture where discrimination is deep-seated and revenge is just a click away. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.

Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist Jackson--but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He's mixed race--half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson.

When Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he's not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan: find out who's responsible and, in the meantime, switch identities and play tricks on people--a boyfriend, a boss--who've wronged them, exploiting the fact that nobody can seem to tell them apart.

A short, blistering gut punch of a novel, Jackson Alone is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender--a frank exploration of identity, race, queerness, and discrimination in contemporary Japan that announces Jose Ando as a singular new talent in the global literary scene.

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