This book is strong in
character and story.
Summary:
The book follows a single Japanese-American family through its
experience with the WWII internment camps.
I would recommend this book!
Why?
I think this should be recommended reading for anyone in 2003 who looks
suspiciously at all those with Middle-eastern looking faces! We need a reminder
of the physical, emotional and financial toll that same mindset took upon fellow
Americans in 1942. Little details of everyday life, the things we take for
granted -- a cold Coke, running to the drugstore for face cream, tending a garden, going to work -- were denied these people for years as they lived behind barbed wire in a Utah desert. Knowing that intellectually is very different from
walking in the dust-covered , unpolished shoes of a formerly middle-class
family. You won't forget them, or their experience.
Employee Initials: SB
Review Date: February 2003
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