Sansei and Sensibility

By Karen Tei Yamashita

Book Overview

In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance--familial, cultural, emotional, artistic--really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with and humor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566895782
• ISBN13: 9781566895781
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"