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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CIP INFORMATION

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951–

I Hotel / by Karen Tei Yamashita.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1968: Eye Hotel, NOVELLA, E-ISBN 978-1-56689-388-6

1. Civil rights movements—United States—Fiction.

2. Asian Americans—Fiction.

3. Nineteen seventies—Fiction.

4. Nineteen sixties—Fiction.

5. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)—Fiction.

I. Title.

II. Series.

PS3575.A44119 2010

813'.54—DC22

2010000382

This story is based, in part, on true events, but certain liberties have been taken with names, places, and dates, and the characters have been invented. Therefore, the persons and characters portrayed bear absolutely no resemblance whatever to the persons who were actually involved in the true events described in this story.