Karen Tei Yamashita

Dazzling and ambitious, this multivoiced 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 near the end of the 1960s. As Karen Tei Yamashita's motley cast of students, labourers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they become...

An apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media and the harsh L.A. sun. Fiercely satirical. . . . Yamashita presents [an] intricate plot with mordant wit. -New York Times Book Review A stunner. . . . An exquisite mystery novel. But this is a novel of dystopia and apocalypse; the mystery concerns the tragic flaws of human...

Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book Review "With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." -Kirkus "Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." -Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably...