Sansei And Sensibility eBook

In these buoyant and inventive stories, Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritancefamilial, cultural, emotional, artisticreally means. In a California of the 60s and 70s, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives freezers, tape-record high-school locker-room chatter, or collect a communitys gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team,Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace balls, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor.