Boyle T.C. East is East

Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal.
Part I Tupelo Island
Small Matters
The Tokachi-maru
Thanatopsis House
Hog Hammock
The Squarest People in the World
Queen Bee
Fea Purē
Behind a Wall of Glass
Rusu
The Other Half
Still at Large
Parfait in Chrome
The Dogs are Barking, Woof-Woof
Part II The Okefenokee
Everybody’s Secret
Four Walls
The Whiteness of the Fish
A Jungle
Where the Earth Trembles
Tender Sproats
Cheap Thrills
The Power of the Human Voice
Haha
Part III Port of Savannah
Journalism
The City of Brotherly Love