{"product_id":"9781566894876-letters-to-memory","title":"Letters to Memory","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Karen Tei Yamashita:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing.\" \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\"Magnificent. Intriguing.\" \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative.\" \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScintillations\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, classiciststheir 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\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420550480246,"sku":"9781566894876","price":15.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33584683.jpg?v=1749077968","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781566894876-letters-to-memory","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}