Talk a Blue Streak - Lila Matsumoto Sallinger’s signature – and everybody

Sallinger’s signature – and everybody who reads knows that he hardly ever signed anything

Three Rivers Press

The title refers to the English “cue”—a theatrical cue—and at the same time to its repetition

Looking back over these forty years

and that constant relocation became an education in reinvention

Talk a Blue Streak - Lila Matsumoto Sallinger’s signature – and everybodyIn 1990, a girl moves to the USA. She goes to school, learns English, becomes an American citizen, and aspires to become a writer. But what is she to make of the extravagance, bombast, and damage she encounters in the new countrys language and customs? And what about the shrink wrapped hunks of frozen meat, hurricanes, and the cat eye marbles scattered on the road? Hugely pleasurable, in turns funny and dolorous, Talk a Blue Streak examines how the