I Hotel (novel)

I Hotel is a 2010 novel by Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita, published by Coffee House Press. A novel about Asian American movements in the seventies, it is named after the International Hotel, a historic residential hotel in San Francisco that housed predominantly Filipino Americans in the 20th century, which is the setting for several of the book's sections. The book won several awards, including an American Book Award. It was reissued by Coffee House Press for its tenth anniversary in 2019, featuring an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn.