You Are Make Very Important Bathtime

You Are Make Very Important Bathtime is David Moscovich's flash-fiction novel and an anthropology of self-exoticism: a celebration of cultural misunderstanding set in Southern Japan, where an expatriate narrator becomes as foreign to himself as the host culture becomes to him.

The book runs by micro-sentence units that accumulate into a macro form, the short performed pieces aggregating until the second-person "you" the title names is pushed toward release. Misunderstanding is the working condition: phrases get carried across without the world that produced them, and what arrives in translation is a third thing, neither what was meant nor what is heard.

It won the 2011 Broad Set Collective Award for the Innovative Novel, recognized for the proof that the short performed unit could carry a full novel.