{"product_id":"letters-to-memory-paperback","title":"Letters to Memory - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Karen Tei Yamashita: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing. --\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFluid and poetic as well as terrifying. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point. --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagnificent. . . . Intriguing. --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative. --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Memory\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnime Wong\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Coffee House Press. \u003ci\u003eI Hotel \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of \u003ci\u003eThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrazil-Maru\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTropic of Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCircle K Cycles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnime Wong\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Coffee House Press. \u003ci\u003eI Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist \u0026amp; Critical Race \u0026amp; Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771481489696,"sku":"9781566894876","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d5f5f54b16f27ea926258953118e10fe.webp?v=1780387317","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/letters-to-memory-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}