JAMES SULLIVAN

Harboring (ELJ Editions, 2023) is a literary take on the Japanese Kyodai (Giant) Hero genre that examines the position of this oft-heroic figure. The novelette follows Takeshi Furuya, an alien who has adopted contemporary Kobe, Japan as his new home and fully assimilated while defending the nation against less friendly visitors. When he meets a Japanese man who unsettles him even more than these outsiders, he begins to question the simplicity of his moral vision.

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Advance praise for Harboring

“Each sentence in Harboring packs the punch of a skyscraper-sized kaiju. James Sullivan’s masterful wit, insight, and command of language are on full display in this phenomenal
novelette, which will reverberate with you long after you put it down. Thought-provoking, beautiful, a must read.”

– Will Musgrove, author of Asphalt Dreaming
 

In Harboring, “The complex inner life of an alien hero is all the more relatable when seen through the eyes of someone innately curious and thoughtful about the world around them. The hero’s story is clearly written from the perspective of someone truly in-love with life, culture, food…and tokusatsu!”
- Matt Frank, writer/artist of Redman: The Kaiju Hunter