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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." - NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." - New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." - Kirkus"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." - Library Journal"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Scintillations 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.



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Karen Tei Yamashita

Heralded as a "big talent" by the Los Angeles Times, extolled by the New York Times for her "mordant wit," and praised by Newsday for "wrestl[ing] with profound philosophical and social issues" while delivering an "immensely entertaining story," Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the foremost writers of her generation. I Hotel, which took over a decade to write and research, is her magnum opus.The author of four previous novels, Yamashita is the recipient of 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.



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