Sansei and Sensibility
Stories

Karen Tei Yamashita is a remarkable writer - a genius - and this career-spanning collection of short stories set in the Sansei community (3rd generation ethnically Japanese residents of foreign countries, mostly California here) demonstrates her range. Though it doesn't reach the heights of I HOTEL......more

Illuminating, inventive, and often f*cking hilarious – but Janeites beware! The first half of the book is an at times disjointed collection of short stories and essays published between 1975-2019, all circling around various aspects of the sansei experience. The second half of the book is comprised......more

Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the most under-rated bicultural writers currently working today. Her writing is often a lot more ambitious and harder to define than a lot of writing by second generation Americans, which is probably why she has had less success in the marketplace. At the same time, Yam......more

J.A x 2 – Japanese American meets Jane Austen A two-part collection of thematically related short stories about Sansei – third generation Japanese immigrants to America (here mainly California), and their interactions with the two previous generations and particularly the Nisei (second generation im......more

I liked the scope and uniqueness found in these short stories; from powerful grandmothers, to bathtubs, to dental hygienists who know too much, to interment camps this book has a bit of everything in it. The first half of the short stories aren't related to Jane Austen but are still profound and enj......more