Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.
Replaces ISBN 9780295961675
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"Mori’s superbly structured short stories are . . . tender, evocative episodes of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II."
" - San Francisco Chronicle
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"Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine through bravely."
" - Oakland Tribune
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"A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades just before World War II."
" - Exploration in Sights and Sounds
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"Originally published in 1949, these twenty-two stories present subtle glimpses into the lives of Japanese-Americans in their neighborhood in Oakland, California, aka 'Yokohama.' Mori has a delicate touch, and the stories have more than a passing resemblance to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)."
" - Kirkus Reviews
