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Author Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-

Title Tropic of orange / a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Published Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Book Sales, [1997]
©1997

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 W'PONDS  810.54 Y195 A6/T  AVAILABLE
Description 270 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Karen Yamashita presents an L.A. where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of highway struck by disaster. The Harbor Freeway crisis becomes the apex of events - caused by an orange, which has been brought to L.A. from just north of Mazatlan, dragging with it the Tropic of Cancer."--BOOK JACKET. "Rafaela, caretaking Gabriel's getaway home in Mexico, discovers a dealer of human body parts and flees north, joining a performer/laborer named Arcangel. Meanwhile, Gabriel, a news reporter in L.A., has been following leads in which seemingly unrelated events mysteriously unite as the homeless take up residence in abandoned Mercedes, lowriders, and Cads, and an aged Asian American sansei conducts symphonies from a freeway overpass."--BOOK JACKET
"Emi, T.V. executive and Gabriel's girlfriend, along with Buzzworm, his connection to the streets, get caught in the middle of this mounting wildfire just as the cast of characters - diverse as the city itself - assembles for the final event. Tropic of Orange is an apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media under the harsh L.A. sun."--BOOK JACKET
Subject Executives -- Fiction.
Reporters and reporting -- Fiction.
Executives -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Reporters and reporting -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Social conflict -- Fiction.
Social conflict -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106612
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 97015991
ISBN 1566890640 (paperback)