Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wild... SEE MORE