Hanako Footman: “When I go to Japan, I feel held”
The actor and author on looking after her childhood self, feeling whole and making her own cultural connections
Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to actor and author Hanako Footman, who is of Japanese, white British and Irish heritage. Hanako’s debut novel, Mongrel, follows the stories of Mei, Yuki and Haruka, three young women across Japan and England whose intertwining narratives reveal “a tangled web of desire, isolation, be…
