Letters to memory
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Letters to memory
Coffee House Press, 2017
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Karen is a giant in Asian American literature, and this new work is a skeleton key for her fiction, positioning it in relationship to her family history and her wide-ranging curiosity, and offering fans a glimpse into the sources of her imaginative work
While this is the story of the internment and its repercussions for the Yamashita family, Karen's formal choices, including using different disciplines as lenses for ideas (forgiveness, debt, civil rights) make it an expansive work of deep moral seriousness
Documentary instincts are a part of Karen's writing (most visible in I Hotel and Circle K Cycles) but historical grounding and issues of migration, integration, separation (voluntary and not), and community making are present in all.
Despite the gravity of the subject, Karen is reliably a funny writer, and one whose voice (casual, disarming, a tug on the sleeve) animates these stories
The use of primary source materials makes the characters come alive?we can see their handwriting, their faces, their paintings.
The book links back to an extensive archive of correspondence, photography, and other holdings, making the book far larger than what's on the page.
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