{"product_id":"9781566894876","title":"Letters to Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Karen Tei Yamashita:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing.\" —\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing.\" —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScintillations\u003c\/i\u003e is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, Orientalism, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnime Wong\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Coffee House Press. \u003ci\u003eI Hotel \u003c\/i\u003ewas selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian\/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048561295600,"sku":"9781566894876","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566894876_p0.jpg?v=1763788628","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566894876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}