Circle K Cycles Author:Karen Tei Yamashita When second-generation Japanese-Brazilians emigrate to Japan to assume the manual work its citizens no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, along with homesickness for the food, culture, and language they left behind is complicated by Japan's reverence for all things "purely Japanese." This stunning book of hybrids merges Yamashita's... more » inimitable and visionary fiction, essays from the time the author and her family lived in Japan, and Japanese pop culture collage to illustrate a global society that resists heritage-by-hyphenation and opens the door onto important issues of the new century: global labor, transnationalism, and cultural appropriation.« less