Karen Tei Yamashita, Author Coffee House Press $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-918273-82-6
This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. First-novelist Yamashita blends the matter-of-fact surrealism of Garcia Marquez, bizarre science fiction twists a
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Karen Tei Yamashita, Author Coffee House Press $16.95 (147p) ISBN 978-1-56689-108-0
American Book Award-winner Karen Tei Yamashita considers various cultural exchanges between Japanese and Brazilians in Circle K Cycles. Focusing primarily on the descendants of Japanese immigrants living in Brazil who leave to find factory work in...
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Karen Tei Yamashita, Author Coffee House Press $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56689-000-7
Yamashita (whose Through the Arc of the Rain Forest won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize) extensively researched this exotic fictional account of ``educated Japanese Christians with socialist sentiments'' who relocate to the northwestern corner of...
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Karen Tei Yamashita. Coffee House, $16.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-56-689-578-1
Yamashita (I Hotel) returns with a career-spanning collection of stories originally published between 1975–2019, each of which is in dialogue with the work of Jane Austen. The stories are mostly set in California’s third-generation Japanese Sansei...
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Karen Tei Yamashita, Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $19.95 (640p) ISBN 9781566892391
In Yamashita's latest, she strings together a stunningly complete vision of San Francisco's Asian American community in the late 1960s and early '70s, using the titular inn as a meeting point for ten loosely-connected novellas, each covering a...
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Karen Tei Yamashita, Author, Karen T. Yamashita, Author Coffee House Press $14.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56689-016-8
Yamashita offers an enriching fictionalization of the settling of the northwestern corner of Brazil by socialist Japanese Christians. (Sept.)
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Karen Tei Yamashita. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-56689-487-6
Novelist Yamashita (I Hotel) explores her family’s experience in a Japanese-American internment camp during WWII using stories, letters, photos, artwork, and other records from her family archive. In five thematically linked sections on poverty,...
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