2010 National Book Award Finalist
2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book Award Winner in Adult Fiction
2010 California Book Award Winner
Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. 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 Karen 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 the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotelepicenter of the Yellow Power Movementtheir stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.
- ISBN10 1566892392
- ISBN13 9781566892391
- Publish Date 17 June 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 31 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Coffee House Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 640
- Language English