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Farewell to Manzanar, a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II incarceration, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston ; [foreword by Traci Chee ; photographs by Toyo Miyatake]

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Farewell to Manzanar

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston ; [foreword by Traci Chee ; photographs by Toyo Miyatake]

a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II incarceration

"Jeane Wakatsuki was born in California to a large Japanese American family with a thriving fishing business in Long Beach. Then, in 1941, Pear Harbor was bombed, and everything changed. Young Jeanne's father was taken away by FBI agents, leaving her mother behind to keep the children safe in a world where hostility against the Japanese was growing. The Wakatsukis were forced to move from their home, losing most of their belongings in the process. And finally, they were bused far into the desert, to an incarceration camp called Manzanar, where they, along with ten thousand other Japanese Americans, would live out the rest of World War II. In this moving memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki recalls coming of age in Manzanar, a bleak, dusty settlement behind barbed wire. She tells of her family's struggle to adjust to life in cramped barracks, fearful and searching for purpose in their new surroundings. She describes finding a sense of normalcy in activities like glee club and baton twirling, while armed guards loomed above in watchtowers. Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention -- and of a child who discovered what it is like to grow up a prisoner of her native country."--, Inside front jacket flap

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