Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:
"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." —
NPR
"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —
New York Times Book Review
With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." —
Kirkus
"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." —
Library Journal
"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." —
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
Letters to Memory
is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, Orientalism, and community.
Karen Tei Yamashita
is the author of
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
,
Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel
, and
Anime Wong
, all published by Coffee House Press.
I Hotel
was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.