Copyright © 2017 by Karen Tei Yamashita

Cover design by Carlos Esparza

Cover photographs courtesy of the author

Book design by Ann Sudmeier

Author photograph © Tosh Tanaka

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951– author.

Title: Letters to memory / Karen Tei Yamashita.

Description: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012423 | ISBN 9781566894982 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Japanese Americans—Evacuation and relocation, 1942–1945—Fiction. | United States—History—20th century—Fiction. | Japanese Americans—Fiction. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction. | Epistolary fiction. | Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3575.A44 S35 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012423

Images found in this book are from the Yamashita Family Archives, courtesy of the author.

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