Sansei and Sensibility: Stories

In these buoyant & inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers
classic tales across boundaries & questions what an inheritance—familial, cultural, emotional, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties & seventies, 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 replace Ballroom dances, & station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, & gender leap into our modern world with wit & humor.

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, & Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award & awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, & the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow & co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature & Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.