Audio Book Description:
Seventeen year old Severin Boxxlives on Yokota, an enormous American Air Force base on the outskirts of Tokyo. Like most of the other young Americanmen on the airbase, Severin is mad for Virginia Kindwall, the base general`s daughter, who is a hafu-half American and half Japanese. Beautiful, smart,and utterly defiant of a fatherwho wields godlike militarypower, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground that lurks in themad neon netherworld just outside the base, around the nearbyrail station`s Exit A. Severinis soon caught up in Virginia`s world. But their romance isshort lived as they find themselves in trouble way over their heads and subjected to the enormous, unforgiving tensions that remain between Americaand Japan in the wake of World War II. Years later, Severin and Virginia remainlost to each other-until an emotionally frayed,thirty something Severin embarkson a quest to find Virginia, and reclaim the part of himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly ended.
