Yellow | Yellow

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Author: Don Lee
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Short fiction
Time of Work: The 1970’s to the 1990’s
Setting: California, Japan, and Boston
Principal Characters: Dean Kaneshiro, Hank Low Kwon, Alan Fujitani, Annie Yung, Patrick Fenny, Duncan Roh, Eugene Kim, Danny Kim
Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Domestic realism
Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, 1980’s, New England, California, West, U.S., Asia or Asians, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Small-town life, Boston, 1990’s, Asian Americans, Japan or Japanese people, Massachusetts
Locales: California, Boston, MA, Japan

Don Lee’s first book, Yellow: Stories, presents an engrossing collection of psychologically intricate characters realized in a supple, elegant prose and woven into intriguing plots spiced with suspense and irony. The action and protagonists of these eight stories are located or originate in Rosarita Bay, a small town on the seacoast south of San Francisco. (Although the name Rosarita Bay is fictional, the town is recognizably Half Moon Bay.) Yellow, then, is a short story cycle (or composite novel) like Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989) and Louise Erdrich’s...

Yellow | Yellow

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