TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kageyama,Peter
TI  - Hunters Point: a novel of San Francisco 
SN  - 9781940300634
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - St. Petersburg, FL
PB  - St. Petersburg Press
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - California
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - SAN FRANCISCO, 1958. World War 2 veteran, Katsuhiro, "Kats" Takemoto is a Nisei, second generation Japanese American and the private detective for those who don't get noticed by the police or get the attention of traditional private eyes. The city is exploding with population growth and creative expression as the Beat poets and artists fill coffee shops and galleries. When a young Beat poet enlists Kats to keep his family from being pushed out of the Bayview Heights neighborhood by a shady developer, Kats learns that the conspiracy to take over the land around Hunters Point runs deep into Cold War fears and politics. Kats takes on the US government, the Navy, unscrupulous businessmen and the west coast mafia as he and his friends race to find the truth. Award winning author Peter Kageyama's debut novel brings the post-war San Francisco scene to life with historic characters including Jimmy Stewart, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Alfred Hitchcock and Shig Murao, along with the dynamics of racial identity for Japanese Americans finding their footing again in America following the war and internment
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