Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and '70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design. '[T]his powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.'-Publishers Weekly, starred review