I Hotel

ISBN: 1566892392

Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei

Condition: Used

2010 National Book Award Finalist2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book Award Winner in Adult Fiction2010 California Book Award WinnerDazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of Americas struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Franciscos Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and cities burned.As Karen Yamashitas motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotelepicenter of the Yellow Power Movementtheir stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.