From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
English
By (author): David Loftus Mitzi Asai Loftus
In From Thorns to Blossoms, Mitzi recounts her rich and varied life, from a childhood surrounded by barbed wire and hatred to a successful career as a high school English teacher and college instructor in English as a Second Language. Today, Asai descendants continue to tend the Hood River farm while the town confronts its shameful history. Originally published in 1990 as Made in Japan and Settled in Oregon, this revised and expanded edition describes the positive influence Mitzis immigrant parents had on their children, provides additional context for her story, and illuminates the personal side of a dark chapter in US history. Its the remarkable story of a transformation from thorns into blossoms, pain into healing.
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