One New Year’s Eve, novelist Genki Kawamura’s grandmother seemed to think he was a child back in school. He was over 35 years old at the time. On a separate occasion, she forgot his name.

But readers will be hard-pressed to find much stylistic overlap between the elder Ferguson’s sprawling, intricately plotted novels and comedic, non-fiction travel writing and Genki’s haunting ...

As the film and book hits kept on coming, he branched out into scriptwriting for both live-action and anime. Kawamura’s role as a producer on Your Name, which took over $350 million on a record ...

Genki Ferguson is a writer from Calgary, and the son of acclaimed writer Will Ferguson. Satellite Love is his first book. Satellite Love is set in a city in Japan in 1999.