Sansei and sensibility

✍ Scribed by Karen Tei Yamashita

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 708 KB
• Edition: PB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Minneapolis
• ISBN: 1566895863

✦ Synopsis

In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial, cultural, emotional, artistic—really 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.

✦ Subjects

Adult Fiction