Isako Isako - by Mia Ayumi Malhotra (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Journey through a Japanese American's lineage, detailing war, xenophobia, and racism. These poems ache while creating hope for the future.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Isako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma--internment, mass displacement and rampant racism--in the United States, and how it weaves together with current events.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The personal pronoun I has brinks on all sides, over which you can fall and become anyone and no one. Isako Isako deeply explores these soaring and dangerous precipices of identity through the magnetic voice of a Japanese-American internment camp survivor who is both an individual and collective, a citizen and a prisoner, broken and healing. Mia Ayumi Malhotra has written a brilliant and searing debut." --Maria Hummel<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mia Ayumi Malhotra is a fourth-generation Japanese American and the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of Washington, and her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including <i>Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, Best New Poets, </i> and <i>DISMANTLE: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop</i>. She was raised in Laos and Thailand and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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