If You Follow Me: A NovelIn this beautifully wrought and deftly written debut novel we meet Marina who, in an effort to outpace her grief, moves to rural Japan shortly after her fathers suicide and finds work as an English teacher as well as unexpected solace with her Japanese supervisor and seemingly different neighbors. Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But