Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance-familial, cultural, emotional, artistic-really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine ...[SEE MORE]