Author BELLE BRETT Launches “Gina in the Floating World” at Porter Square Books

BELLE BRETT will read from her debut novel, Gina in the Floating World (She Writes Press), answer questions, and sign books at Porter Square Books.

An unpaid bank internship in Japan’s booming 1981 economy is supposed to be the ticket into a prestigious international MBA program for naïve but ambitious Midwesterner Dorothy Falwell. But her evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar is a far cry from the sensuous woodblock prints she’s seen of old Tokyo’s “floating world.”  When she accepts the help of the wealthy and mysterious Mr. Tambuki, Dorothy, renamed Gina, finds herself in her own twisted version of Oz, where unorthodox Zen instruction, erotic art, and kinky sex cause her moral compass to go so haywire that working as a prostitute feels normal and the way home, unimaginable.