Staff at Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press are celebrating today after one of its titles "I Hotel" was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. The book by Karen Tei Yamashita tells the story of the Asian-American community in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Coffee House founder and publisher Allan Kornblum, who signed the author about 20 years ago, says the nomination is a huge honor. This is really a thrill to have this form of recognition for a writer who we've stuck with and who has stuck with us, to watch her talent to continue to grow and see this form of recognition for really her magnum opus.