A01=Cynthia Kadohata
aimless
america
american literature
Author_Cynthia Kadohata
california
Category=FBA
childrens lit
class disparity
coming of age story
contemporary literature
dead parents
despair
education
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future
futuristic setting
government
haunting
human relationships
humanity
imagining the future
independent readers
japanese american author
juvenile literature
los angeles
orphan
rich and poor
speculative fiction
superstitious
united states of america
water and food
young children
young readers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520207288
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing--this is not an apocalyptic dystopia--that makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book.
Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the novel The Floating World. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street. She is the recipient of a 1991 Whiting Writers Fellowship and lives in Los Angeles.
