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I Hotel

By Karen Yamashita
Illustrated Leland Wong, Sina Grace
2010, 640 pages, Paperback.



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This dazzling, multi-voiced fusion of fiction, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of American's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco. 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 Yamashita's 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-epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement-their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.

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"I Hotel is an explosive site, a profound metaphor and jazzy, epic novel rolled into one. Karen Tei Yamashita chronicles colliding arts and social movements in the Bay Area of the wayward '70s with fierce intelligence, humor and empathy."
-Jessica Hagedorn

"If you were there in 1970s San Francisco, then this book is about you. At some point in reading I Hotel, I lost all objectivity. I wept, I laughed, I read silently while moving my lips. And I read the last twelve pages again and again as if an ancestor had written them."
-Shawn Wong

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