The seventh novella in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Franciscos Asian-American community through the civil rights era.Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Franciscos Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashitas epic are each devoted to a single year in one of Americas most transformative decades. This multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins a kaleidoscopic tale of Americas struggle for civil rights, all played out among Yamashitas motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs.In 1974: I-Migrant Hotel, the International has a new landlorda multinational corporation based in Hong Kongand the residents are more than a little uneasy about what this means for them. Its the Year of the Tiger, and while Felix and Macario build a retirement home for Filipino farm workers down in Delano, they also study the situation back in Chinatown.
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