Magical Realism Transforms Los Angeles in ‘Tropic of Orange’
On Karen Tei Yamashita’s iconic LA novel.
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From: chireviewofbooks.com
In support of their publication of Karen Tei
Yamashita’s new work of nonfiction, Letters to Memory, Coffee House Press has reissued three of Yamashita’s novels in beautiful new jackets: Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Brazil-Maru, and Tropic of Orange, which is the subject of this review. Originally published in 1997 and already considered a canonical L.A. novel, its eclectic and feverish prose still speaks with a freshness on contemporary concerns around migration, identity, globalization and apocalypse.
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