As the months go by, Dan Wells settles into his life as an assistant junior high school teacher in the rural Japanese village of Tonoharu. Isolated from those around him by language and cultural barriers, he leads a solitary existence, until the day an unrequited crush extends him a dinner invitation.

Dan’s quiet life will expand in unexpected directions. But will this be beneficial — or detrimental? An intriguing piece of comics biography/travel, mixing manga style with Western Indy comics, presented in a lovely little hardback edition.

Top Shelf, hardback, 160 pages, published November 2010