A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club PickA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNamed a best book
of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.“Kitamura’s ...
Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow.—Booklist on Tropic of Orange, starred
reviewThrough the Arc of the Rainforest progresses toward an apocalyptic resolution that spreads out like a Bosch triptych reproduced by Gauguin. In this, her first ...
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the
samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then ...
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial
agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel ...
No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an
entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by ...
Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying. New York Times Book Review Dazzling .
. . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction. San Francisco Chronicle Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through ...
Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place
in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, ...