An epic journey through one of America's most transformative decades via the stories of the activists, laborers, and students who shaped it.
"I Hotel" is the third novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The first of ten novellas in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco’s Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison.
In telling this compelling story, Estella Habal features her own memories of the antieviction movement, focusing on the roles of Filipino Americans and their participation in both the anti-eviction protests and the nascent Asian American ...
This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, ...
FISCHER. Soon after Josie failed to make it safely out of Frank's house, Adeline was pronounced stable and established down the hall from the father's study where he stared into the light of his computer, insomniac, the perpetually ...
BONUS: This edition contains a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discussion guide and an excerpt from Jamie Ford's Love and Other Consolation Prizes.
You forget I'm the cook. Got to get up around three a.m. Fix grub by four a.m. for the first contingent of pickets. Besides, Phil got that goddamn dog Aguinaldo, never stops bark- ing. All night. Barking. Barking. Who can get any sleep?
... Hotels in Nineteenth - Century Fiction ' , in Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid ( eds ) , Anglo - American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth - Century Literature : Nation , Hospitality , Travel Writing ( New York ...
Has life’s obstacles ever left you confused as to why certain events happen? Are there some people to whom you feel more connected or in tune with than others? If so, perhaps you should wait for your invitation to the Karma Hotel.