Hiring Help to Lure a Husband Out of a Bedroom (Published 2013)It takes extensive puppeteering to get Jeff Backhaus’s debut novel where he wants it to go. The first thing that “Hikikomori and the Rental Sister” must do is come up with an American hermit and agoraphobe with a set of traits that are much more common in Japan. This book needs a man who has withdrawn from society and will not leave his room, although Mr. Backhaus cannot replicate the subtle ways
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