Dark Soil by Sijun Lou, Angie

Dark Soil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566896870)

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Dark Soil by Sijun Lou, Angie

Dark Soil

$26.00
Dark Soil by Sijun Lou, Angie

Dark Soil

$26.00
Format: Paperback
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Eight authors' works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small.

Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction to animate the secrets of Santa Cruz, the city she's called home for nearly three decades. Her characters come alive through her signature witty humor and surreal premises, transcending the past and urging themselves into the present to illuminate a hidden geography of this California coastal city unseen in textbooks.

Alongside these stories, eight nonfiction writers chart their own counternarratives of place through the greater United States. Diverging and converging in their scale and scope, from an unnamed lot on the bank of the Ohio River to the territory of Guam, their essays use language as an instrument of excavation, uncovering layers of hurt and desire concealed in the land.

Author: Angie Sijun Lou
ISBN-10: 1566896878
ISBN-13: 9781566896870
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 14
By Angie Sijun Lou
By Angie Sijun Lou
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Angie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, and Amerasia Journal. She lives in Oakland.


Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of eight books (including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility), all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and a United States Artists' Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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