Equal Distance — Brad Leithauser

Danny Ott, 23, on leave from Harvard Law School and a Wall-Street-firm internship, goes to Kyoto, Japan--to do research with a Japanese law professor. But Kyoto is bewildering Danny feels lucky when he happens two American trust funders who guide him through the chaos. Offbeat tastes and knowledgeable angles on Kyoto that prove to be very entertaining to the more stolid Danny.