A review by audaciaray
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita, Leland Wong, Sina Grace

4.0

A huge book of 10 short novellas about the International Hotel in San Francisco and Asian American activism in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. A truly important book - and it knows it. I got a lot out of this reading experience, and it made me want to read more about this chapter American history. However, because each novella has its own characters, narrative, and style, I often felt myself thinking, "wait, who did what now?" Because its a collection of novellas and they are done in different styles, I didn't find myself getting as deeply immersed in the world of the book as I typically do with good longer works of fiction.