Storiesby Karen Tei Yamashita

May 5, 2020 6 x9 232 pages 978-1-56689-578-1

Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austens characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.

In these buoyant and inventive stories,Karen TeiYamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritancefamilial, cultural, emotional, artisticreally means. In a California of thesixtiesandseventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replaceballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor.

About the Author

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Letters to Memory,all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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