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Jose Ando (Author) Jose Ando was born and raised in Tokyo and is of African-Asian heritage. His debut novel Jackson Alone was awarded the 59th Bungei Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Akutagawa Prize, as was his second novel The Camouflaged Man. His third novel Dtopia won the 172nd Akutagawa Prize, solidifying his presence as one of Japan's brightest young literary stars. Kalau Almony (Translator) Kalau Almony is a Japanese-English literary translator based in Kawasaki, Japan and a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow. Born and raised in Kailua, Hawai?i, Kalau completed his BA in Comparative Literature at Brown University and MA in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa.
Heartbreaking, hilarious, and harrowing, Jose Ando's Jackson Alone astounds. Investigating queerness, Blackness, and difference in a vibrant, ever-shifting Tokyo, Ando's novel blends buddy-comedy, whodunit and cultural excavation into a story about the many different ways we belong (and don't). I've never read anything like Ando's prose-Jackson Alone transcends the form -- Bryan Washington, author of MEMORIAL A unique idea, it reminds me of the work of Jordan Peele -- Amy Yamada The harmony that Jackson Alone finds between a pressing social theme and rhythmical narration filled me with a strange excitement I had never before experienced -- Yoko Ogawa The rhythm of Jose Ando's Jackson Alone is wonderful, as is the richly forceful premise -- Hiromi Kawakami Skewering the horrors of corporate work and living with the internet, Jackson Alone is a propulsive exploration of doppelgängers, revenge, obsession and queer community, and how race and desire can become dangerously entangled. Twisty and subversive - I've never read anything like it. -- Jenna Clake
