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u003cbu003e2010 National Book Award Finalistu003cbru003e 2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book Award Winner in Adult Fictionu003cbru003e 2010 California Book Award Winneru003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco's Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year,u003ciu003eI Hotelu003c/iu003e begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and cities burned.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e As Karen Yamashita's motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel--epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement--their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.u003cbru003e

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