SUMMARY: Playbook.
Sansei and sensibility
β Scribed by Karen Tei Yamashita
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 708 KB
- Edition
- PB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Minneapolis
- ISBN
- 1566895863
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritanceβfamilial, cultural, emotional, artisticβreally means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with and humor.
β¦ Subjects
Adult Fiction
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