Yokohama, California

US: University of Washington Pre, 2015. Paperback. Like New. Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published c ollection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional commu nity, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and le gends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 Editorial Reviews Review "Mori's superbly structured short stories are . . . tender, evocative episo des of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II."â??San Fran cisco Chronicle "Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine t hrough bravely."â??Oakland Tribune "A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the de cades just before World War II."â??Exploration in Sights and Sounds "Originally published in 1949, these twenty-two stories present subtle glim pses into the lives of Japanese-Americans in their neighborhood in Oakland, California, aka 'Yokohama.' Mori has a delicate touch, and the stories hav e more than a passing resemblance to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1 919)."â??Kirkus Reviews About the Author Toshio Mori (1910-1980) was born in Oakland, California. During World War II, he was interned, with his family, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, where he served as camp historian. Xiaojing Zhou is professor of English at the University of the Pacific and author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature.