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A01=Gene Oishi
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Japanese American concentration camp
Japanese Americans
Japanese internment camp
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WWII
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- ISBN 9781885030177
- Dimensions: 150 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2015
- Publisher: Kaya Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family--along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans--are packed off to a concentration camp run by the US government. The harsh and barren world of the Arizona desert where Hiroshi and his family find themselves sets sibling against sibling, parent against child and neighbor against neighbor in a complex grappling with duty and disappointment that will reverberate through the ensuing decades. Sexual initiation, kabuki tales, jazz clubs and alcoholism form the backdrop against which Hiroshi, his siblings and his parents struggle to define themselves. Whether describing Hiroshi’s tumultuous postwar coming of age or excavating generational grievances exacerbated by internment, Gene Oishi gives heartbreaking and at times humorous context to the life of a family set adrift by its wartime experiences.
