COIN LOCKER BABIES PB – RYU MURAKAMI-STEPHEN SNYDER

p b A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale i Japan Times /i /b /p p Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. /p p Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind. /p p When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence. /p p b Encapsulates the i fin de siecle /i cultural detonation of Japanese youth i Kirkus /i /b /p