: You might not want to rule out writing in your native language too quickly. The noted Japanese author Murakami became famous partly on the strength of writing books with a distinctly American

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You might not want to rule out writing in your native language too quickly. The noted Japanese author Murakami became famous partly on the strength of writing books with a distinctly American style and flavor, but in Japanese.

If you are committed to writing in English, why not give your book a first-person narrator from your own country? Then any small oddities in expression will seem intentional, and add realism, not reduce it. (This is partly based on Hildreth's answer, but doesn't rely on a foreign setting, only a foreign narrator.) It's often quite enjoyable to read a good writer writing in a non-native language entirely because of the differences in perspective and voice, so it might be something you shouldn't worry too much about concealing. Based on your earlier comments, it might work well for your book to have a narrator based loosely on yourself and your own experiences as a foreigner traveling in the US.

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