Heralded as a 'big talent' by the Los Angeles Times and praised by Newsday for '[wrestling] with profound philosophical and social issues' while delivering an 'immensely entertaining story,' Karen Yamashita is the recipient of an American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A California native who has also lived in Brazil and Japan, she teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she received the Chancellor's Award for Diversity in 2009.
Awards: NBA (2021) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990)
Brazil-maru (1992)
Tropic of Orange (1997)
Circle K Cycles (2001)
Letters to Memory (2017)
Questions 27 & 28 (2026)
Brazil-maru (1992)
Tropic of Orange (1997)
Circle K Cycles (2001)
Letters to Memory (2017)
Questions 27 & 28 (2026)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Books containing stories by Karen Tei Yamashita
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2 (2004)
At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 2)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn
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