![]() The California Book Club selection for March is elegiac yet vividly alive in the moment. ![]() “Al told me that he took an old manong to fish in the Delta, that they caught sturgeon, and he just forgot,” Yamashita explains to me. She captures earth-shaking political shifts, like the Vietnam War and political assassinations, with as much detail as she does intimate fleeting moments, like the night poet Al Robles missed his City Lights book launch and friends read for him. In I Hotel, which Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “the great Asian American novel, with Asian in parentheses,” Karen Tei Yamashita crafts an idiosyncratic and evocative experimental collage, its form emerging from what she describes as “an artistic renaissance among a new generation who explored the freedom to be creative” in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. ![]()
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