john nakata, and brother races are like him and celebrated. [inaudible] novel 1957, recovered here in the bay area. 1974 by frank chen. the combined project. also along with nathan who is joining us here today. they see then. they included a chapter of it in the mythology of asian american writing. i.e. was might evoke an awakening that asian america has brought just asian and not just american and not just the best of these to the best of the west by the thing called asian american. with its own voice and sensibility in 45 years ago, there was a radical idea. i.e. would not have been possible with the publication by howard university pressure and 74. the first black university press in the nation. and chief executive late charles harris the following year and it was published in the third issue of your reader. thanks to its publisher, and with the public reaction to the cart republished novel in its entirety. i say i see jenni has an original here. very nice. forty-five years ago was when i first arrived in san francisco as a wide-eyed know n