Are you in NE Ohio? I think the county where I teach chose this book for the community reading program. I haven't read it, but it's good to hear more about it.
as an American citizen, she was permitted to leave the camp for a life in the Midwest.
Yep! That's how my grandmother and grandfather met, in Chicago in the late '40s.
I have to pass up the vast majority of books and documentaries on the Japanese-American internment, because it is extremely triggery for me, but thank you for reading this one and posting your review! One book I didn't skip was a children's book called Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, who also wrote Passage To Freedom: The Sugihara Story -- which was about the Japanese ambassador in Lithuania during WWII, who saved thousands of Jews by, against orders from Japan, issuing visas out of the country. I definitely recommend both of them.
I read Nisei Daughter during undergrad, in a class on 20th century women writers. We talked a lot in class about her seeming acceptance of what had happened to her family, and how dispassionate she seemed about the whole thing. I'm glad to hear someone else found that in the text as well.
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Yep! That's how my grandmother and grandfather met, in Chicago in the late '40s.
I have to pass up the vast majority of books and documentaries on the Japanese-American internment, because it is extremely triggery for me, but thank you for reading this one and posting your review! One book I didn't skip was a children's book called Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, who also wrote Passage To Freedom: The Sugihara Story -- which was about the Japanese ambassador in Lithuania during WWII, who saved thousands of Jews by, against orders from Japan, issuing visas out of the country. I definitely recommend both of them.
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