Audrey Hepburn's Neck

Brown, Alan. Audrey Hepburn's Neck. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.
This is the growing up story of Toshi Okamoto, a young man from Japan. From his nineth birthday onwards he develops a crush for Audrey Hepburn, especially her beautiful neck. He sees the movie with his mother, with whom the boy shares a special relationship. This leads him to a series of affairs with American women which are disastrous. The novel is about the intercultural exchanges between Japanese, the next generation after the neuclear war and their children who revers "foriegners." It is also about the misconceptions that happen between two groups of different languages.