Karen Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, seemed to offer a wide range of postmodernism qualities. In addition to this, the novel shifted point of views between characters, raised issues around the surrounding environment (which in this case was Los Angeles), and lastly, exposed a mixture of different genres. Although the novel emphasized on this idea of diversity, there were a couple moments throughout the reading that threw me off, and seem to have drawn attention to the restraints of societal views during this time. The highways for example, which were mentioned throughout the novel were not only used as way of transportation, but as a symbolic symbol to connect and divide nations. That being said, when the roads became blocked and congested
