Copyright © 1997, 2017 by Karen Tei Yamashita

Introduction © 2017 by Sesshu Foster

Cover design by Carlos Esparza

Cover photograph © Joakim Lloyd Raboff/Shutterstock.com

Book design by Bookmobile

First edition published by Coffee House Press in 1997

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951– author.

Title: Tropic of orange / Karen Tei Yamashita.

Description: Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016057048 | ISBN 9781566895026 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. | Magic realism (Literature) | GSAFD: Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3575.A44 T76 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

C record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016057048

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