A Wanderer's Notebook

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

• waitress
• based on novel or book
• poet
• biography
• tokyo, japan
• writer
• novelist
• peddler
• 1920s
• taisho period