Among the most trenchant and provocative writers of globalization, Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the most significant, ambitious, and widely taught Asian Americ

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"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." —

This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

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