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.
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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, charact... SEE MORE