Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind ...
In Hiroshima, Japan, 1902, a woman born under the portentous Fire Horse Sign is married by proxy into the wealthy Matsubara family and sent to join her new husband in a new world-America. In California, 1942, this tame woman - facing the sunset of her life rather than the dawn is sent to a Japanese internment camp with her daughter and ...
During World War II, a Japanese immigrant named Sayo, with her daughter and granddaughter, is sent to Manzanar, an internment camp in eastern California. While imprisoned, each woman tries, in her own fashion, to find a way to keep her dignity intact and to come through the experience without losing her resiliency of spirit.
During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only ...
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