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Seventh Street Books
November 2015
On Sale: November 10, 2015
Featuring: Sam Sumida
185 pages
ISBN: 1633880885
EAN: 9781633880887
Kindle: B00TNBPJLW
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Mystery Private Eye
What becomes of a character cut from a writer’s working
manuscript? On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Sam Sumida, a Japanese-American
academic, has been thrust into the role of amateur P.I.,
investigating his wife’s murder, which has been largely
ignored by the LAPD. Grief stricken by her loss,
disoriented by his ill-prepared change of occupation, the
worst is yet to come, Sam discovers that, inexplicably, he
has become not only unrecognizable to his former
acquaintances but that all signs of his existence (including
even the murder he’s investigating) have been erased.
Unaware that he is a discarded, fictional creation, he
resumes his investigation in a world now characterized not
only by his own sense of isolation but by wartime fear. Meantime, Sam’s story is interspersed with chapters from a
pulp spy novel that features an L.A.-based Korean P.I. with
jingoistic and anti-Japanese, post December 7th attitudes –
the revised, politically and commercially viable character
for whom Sumida has been excised. Behind it all is the ambitious, 20-year-old Nisei author who
has made the changes, despite the relocation of himself and
his family to a Japanese internment camp. And, looming
above, is his book editor in New York, who serves as both
muse and manipulator to the young author—the woman with the
blue pencil, a new kind of femme fatale.
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