I Hotel

I Hotel Synopsis

The tenth anniversary edition of I Hotel promises to bring new readers and ardent fans to this book anew. The world has been reawakened to political activism and activist history, and this novel will be inspiring to a whole new generation of people interested in how art, politics, and activism all come together.

Praised by Newsday for "wrestling with profound philosophical and social issues" while delivering an "immensely entertaining story," Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the major writers of her generation, and with this magnum opus, she should join the company of E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Howard Zinn, as one of the foremost contemporary chroniclers of the American experience.

Documentary instincts are a part of Karen's writing (most visible in I Hotel and Circle K Cycles) but historical grounding and issues of migration, integration, separation (voluntary and not), and community making are present in all.