{"product_id":"letters-to-memory-9781566894876","title":"Letters to Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Karen Tei Yamashita: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing.\" --\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fluid 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\u003e\"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356747403538,"sku":"9781566894876","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3925c2a4-458b-41bd-820f-3f58b2edd823.jpg?v=1728312964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-to-memory-9781566894876","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}