As a novelist, poet and book reviewer, Iain Maloney knew he didn't want to write that book.

The Only Gaijin in the Village, by Iain Maloney.256 pagesPOLYGON, Nonfiction.

A resident of Japan since 2005, for years family and friends had been asking him when he would write a memoir about life here. But Maloney had no interest in penning yet another expatriate perspective.