A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2012, c2011
ISBN:
9781605982724
1605982725
1605982725
Branch Call Number:
940.5317 GRANT
Characteristics:
325 p. ; 22 cm
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green_wolf_271
Dec 08, 2012
green_wolf_271 thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 12 and 99
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Fujii
Jan 04, 2013
"Of course, I was oblivious to the fact that in all my efforts to be un-Japanese, I was joining that same old--and very Japanese--narrative of haji, or shame, that my mother had been participating in when she'd whispered her secret about my grandparents. The same one that had kept my family silent about those years in a Wyoming prison camp."
--Kimi Cunningham Grant
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Add a CommentI would highly recommend this to educators as required reading for seventh and eighth grade students. It provideds a context to understanding history through personal experience and should encourage students to relate their own family histories. Kimi Cunningham Grant's style is subtle and affecting. Her book brings out the many dimensions of our country's continued struggle for civil rights.