Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of eight books, including I Hotel, a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a professor emerita of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz.
Trekking to Delta
Alta Journal is pleased to begin a five-part serialization of this historical essay by acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita.
Trekking to Delta, Part Five: Coda
Understanding an essay drawn from history.
Trekking to Delta, Part Four: A Proving Ground for Peace
The Beckwith family’s newspaper remained mostly apolitical until the MX project came to Delta.
Trekking to Delta, Part Three: The Teachers
Educators at Topaz during World War II and those at the local high school in more recent decades had an outsize role in the lives of their students and the community.
Trekking to Delta, Part Two: People and Land
Long before 11,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at the Topaz camp, the site lay in territory claimed by the Goshute, Ute, and Paiute peoples.
Trekking to Delta, Part One: Cosmic Rays
With the publication of this initial installment from “Trekking to Delta,” Alta Journal is pleased to begin a five-part serialization of this historical essay by acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita.
New Fiction: ‘Taro’
California Book Club author Karen Tei Yamashita shares a fable involving a boy, a turtle, and an adventure.
An Excerpt from ‘I Hotel’: ‘Year of the Monkey’
Read this sample from Karen Tei Yamashita’s California Book Award winner and the California Book Club’s March selection, I Hotel.
