- A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
- This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.—PastaQueen
- Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Tokyo, 1960. Pushing thirty, widowed hostess Keiko, a respected mama-san at a bar nestled in the heart of modern, bustling Ginza district, is with her back to the wall. Confronted with ever-growing debt, resourceful Keiko struggles to keep up appearances in a money-oriented, male-dominated microcosm, searching for emotional and financial stability in all the wrong places. Now, against the backdrop of false promises, the cruelty of fleeting beauty, and unfulfilled aspirations, hard-pressed Keiko is at a crossroads, facing a pressing, ever-present dilemma and closed doors. And, somehow, marrying one of her many ambitious suitors is not going to cut it. Is Keiko doomed to ascend the stairs over and over again?—Nick Riganas
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