KADOHATA, Cynthia. Weedflower. Read by Kimberly Faar. 4 tapes. 6.33. Listening Library. 2006. 0-307-28580-4. $35.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. J* From the KLIATT starred review of the book, March 2006: "Kadohata follows up her Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira with another story...

On the lanai of her Hollywood bungalow, Cynthia Kadohata sits with her legs curled under her body, periodically brushing her black hair away from her face. As she shyly responds to PW's questions about her work, her answers are like interior monologues -...

In the following summary of her interview with Kadohata, See provides details of the novelist's life, reports on her ambivalence towards being hailed as a new voice on the Asian American literary scene, and relates her approach to the writing process.

In the following review, Matsumoto praises The Floating World emphasizing the novel's Japanese American elements.

In the following excerpt, Lee, after analyzing aspects of America's "obsession" with Asia and strains of anti-Asian sentiment pervading American society, discusses the Asian-American literary renaissance and its resultant controversies, and then provides a plot summary of Kadohata's A Floating World, focusing in particular on its Asian American elements.