Block Seventeen
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Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
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9h 58m 0s
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9781982676414

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Kimiko Guthrie., Kimiko Guthrie|AUTHOR., & Natalie Naudus|READER. (2020). Block Seventeen . Blackstone Publishing.

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Kimiko Guthrie, Kimiko Guthrie|AUTHOR and Natalie Naudus|READER. 2020. Block Seventeen. Blackstone Publishing.

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Kimiko Guthrie, Kimiko Guthrie|AUTHOR and Natalie Naudus|READER. Block Seventeen Blackstone Publishing, 2020.

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Kimiko Guthrie, Kimiko Guthrie|AUTHOR, and Natalie Naudus|READER. Block Seventeen Blackstone Publishing, 2020.

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    [synopsis] => Akiko "Jane" Thompson, a half Japanese, half Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane's mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online. Jane wants to ignore these worrisome disturbances until a cry from the past robs her of all peace, forcing her to uncover a long-buried family secret. 
 
As Jane searches for her mother, she confronts her family's fraught history in America. She learns how they survived the internment of Japanese Americans, and how fear and humiliation can drive a person to commit desperate acts. 
 
In melodic and suspenseful prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen, at times charming and light, at others disturbing and disorienting, explores how fear of the "other" continues to shape our supposedly more enlightened times. 
 
At this darkly divisive moment in our republic's history, Block Seventeen stands as a manifestly timely work that addresses historical trauma, the fragile nature of identity, the folds of history and memory's fissures. It is replete with surprises, sudden turns, and multiple voices while unblinkingly dramatizing the profound and enduring, intergenerational psychic scars left by the World War II Japanese American internment experience. Yet the novel is not without a knowing, redemptive humor as its characters attempt to find and define themselves not only in the unstable space between two cultures, but in the shifting terrain between past, present, and an unforeseeable future. Its quiet urgency speaks to us all. 
 
A layered mystery shrouded in grief, paranoia, and intergenerational trauma, set in the Bay Area but located in the half-hidden histories of many of its residents who lived through the Japanese American internment camps of the not-so-distant past.
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