Publisher Description
Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and '70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design. "[T]his powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
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“As original as it is political, as hilarious as
it is heartbreaking, I Hotel is the
result of a decade of research and writing that included more than 150 personal
interviews…[and] will be dog-eared and underlined and assigned to college reading
lists for generations…In the end, the way I
Hotel accounts for the Asian American movement is both sweet and sour. And
for all the losses Yamashita records, there are, we know, great achievements as
well. High among them is this beautiful book.”
—
Washington Post Book World
About Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the
foremost writers of her generation, receving praise from such publications as
the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. I Hotel, which took over a decade to write and research, is considered
her magnum opus. She has won many awards, including an American Book Award and
the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A California native who has also lived in
Brazil and Japan, she teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
where she received the Chancellor’s Award for Diversity in 2009.
About the Narrators
James Yaegashi has appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, film, and television roles. He was also a popular radio disc jockey in Japan. He is a four-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award for audiobook narration, and his voice-over credits include a featured role in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Suzanne Toren, award-winning narrator, has over thirty years of experience in narration. She was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She has won the American Foundation for the Blind’s Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year, AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture, and she is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. She performs on and off Broadway and in regional theaters and has appeared on Law & Order and in various soap operas.
Ramón de Ocampo, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was a cowinner in 2018 of the Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has been seen on television, film, and stages all over the world, including recurring roles on such television shows as The West Wing, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, and Medium. He is the winner of a prestigious Obie Award for his stage work.
Angela Lin, an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA degree in drama. A critically acclaimed actress, her credits include The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, and As the World Turns, among others.
Jennifer Ikeda has been narrating audiobooks since 2002. Among her readings are When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park; Just Listen by Sarah Dessen; and After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates. She has won six AudioFile Earphones Awards.