Julie Otsuka
Rated: 4 Stars
From: Library
A very interesting story and a shameful part of our nation's history. But sad, very sad. Our government succumbed to public hysterics' after Pearl Harbor and . . . dare I even say it, then to greed. I seriously doubt if any of the U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry were ever reimbursed by as much as one penny on the dollar of what was robbed from them. I blush to think of it.
Myself, I am of thirty one thirty seconds German ancestry and no one messed with my family during WW2. Because we didn't look different. Racism is not just a recent phenomena
Publisher Summary The story is told from five different points of view--a mother receiving the evacuation order, her daughter on the train ride to the camp, the son in the desert internment camp, the family's return home, and the final release of the father after years in captivity--chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps.
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