So What...: if I'm fat? Look out Tokyo, here I come!

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Since receiving the green light from his mom to go to Japan over the summer, Ronnie has become a new man. He is determined to go to Tokyo and become a sumo wrestler.
In order to prepare, he jogs, lifts weights, skips rope, and even goes back to the high school wrestling team that he had left in a rather embarrassing way. His younger sister is uncharacteristically helpful and offers him Japanese manga DVDs so he can study real conversation.
Soon enough, school’s out and Ronnie’s waving good-bye to his family as they come to see him off at the airport. Burning with the ambition to succeed, Ronnie travels from Vancouver to Tokyo, and thus begins his multicultural journey into a unique and unknown world.
Awaiting Ronnie is Akamatsu-Beya sumo stable, the respected stablemaster and his beautiful wife, the Big Room shared by fifteen apprentices, and new friends and new foes…

The "So What…" series offers readers a chance to travel with Ronnie to a sumo stable in Tokyo where he experiences a new culture, tradition, new encounters, and excitement as he overcomes his hangups and builds his confidence.

The series also includes stories about his sisters: Julie, Naomi, and Debbie.
His younger sister Julie is devoted to manga and anime, perhaps in an effort to keep her mind off the dead people she keeps hearing from. Julie travels to Tokyo to visit her brother where she is discovered by a local TV crew. Freelance photographer Naomi, the eldest sibling, stumbles across a major scandal during her coverage of a meeting of political leaders in Tokyo. Meanwhile, back home in Vancouver, Debbie, who has been suspicious of her handsome securities dealer husband for some time, decides to leave him and go the minimalist way. The four children never cease to keep their mother Olivia worried, but she has her own issues that need to be addressed...