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1968 Eye Hotel, A Novella, I Hotel, Book One by Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The first of ten novellas in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco’s Asian-American community through the civil rights era. Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the 10 novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita’s epic are each devoted to a single year in one of America’s most transformative decades. This is a kaleidoscopic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights, all involving Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, & provocateurs. In 1968: Eye Hotel, the residents of I-Hotel live through some of the most significant changes of the mid-20th century as they try to make sense of their own lives. It’s the Year of the Monkey, & as every kid in Chinatown seems to be orphaned, survival means everything from protest gatherings to a late-night quest for the city’s best bowl of noodles.An epic journey through one of America’s most transformative decades via the stories of the activists, laborers, & students who shaped it.Dazzling & ambitious, this multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, & philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil righ

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Author

Karen Tei Yamashita [Yamashita, Karen Tei]

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566893886

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (30,340 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14