Book Description:
Sumie Kawakami’s Goodbye Madame Butterfly is an intimate look at the sex lives of Japanese people from a female perspective. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction will shatter the myth of the pliant, coy Japanese woman and replace her with a complex, erotic, sexually charged and fiercely independent woman who struggles to find her place in a male-dominated society.
Ai is divorced and having an affair with her boss. They make love in city hotels and cuddle as the neon flickers outside their window before he goes home to his wife and she to her sons. Ai’s boss says he’ll never get a divorce, and Ai accepts this. But their passionate affair starts to unravel when Ai tells him about a one-night stand she had with a well-built African American man. “Why me?” the boss moans. “That’s too much. How could you have done this to me …”