Letters to Memory
Karen Tei Yamashita
<p>Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:</p><p>"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." &#8212;<I>NPR</I></p><p>"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." &#8212;<I>New York Times Book Review</I></p><p>With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." &#8212;<I>Kirkus</I></p><p>"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." &#8212;<I>Library Journal</I></p><p>"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." &#8212;<I>Publishers Weekly </I>(starred review)</p><p><I>Scintillations</I> 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. Historians, anthropologists, classicists&#8212;their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to...