I Hotel

Praise for I Hotel

Winner of the 2011 American Book Award
Winner of the 2010 California Book Award
Winner of the 2011 Asian American Literary Award Members’ Choice Award
Winner of the 2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association Book Award in Adult Fiction
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award
Finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award in Fiction

“I Hotel is arguably the best book published on Asian American literary history.” —The International Examiner

“As original as it is political, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.” —Washington Post Book World

“This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“The literary equivalent of an intricate and vibrant street mural depicting a clamorous and righteous era of protest and creativity.” —Booklist, starred review

“[An] extraordinary testimony of a revolutionary past.” —The Nation

“Stylistically innovative, vertiginous, and sweeping.” —2010 National Book Award Judges’ Citation

“A surgically deft depiction of the political entwined with the personal. . . . I Hotel’s complex taste lingers and haunts, like something alive.” —The Star Tribune

“It’s a stylistically wild ride, but it’s smart, funny and entrancing.” —Michael Schaub, NPR

“The breadth of I Hotel ’s embrace is encyclopedic and its effect is kaleidoscopic.” —The Chicago Tribune

“An amazing literary accomplishment and a brave and bold act of publishing.” —Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Booksellers

“[I Hotel is] one of my favorite books of all time.” —Jeff VanderMeer

“I wept, I laughed, I read silently while moving my lips. And I read the last twelve pages again and again as if an ancestor had written them.” —Shawn Wong