Farewell to Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D Houston
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ISBN: 9781328742117
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication Date: 7/11/17
Binding: Hardcover
Age Range: -12
Grade Range: 03-07
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Young Adult Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural & Regional, Asian American & Pacific Islander, History, United States - 20th Century, Social Activists, Women, Family, and General (see also headings under Social Topics)
Related Subjects: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, Manzanar War Relocation Center, Japanese Americans, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Concentration camps, and California
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This special 50th-anniversary edition features a new cover, a foreword by New York Times bestselling and acclaimed author Traci Chee, and photographs of life at the camp by Toyo Miyatake.
During World War II the incarceration camp called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose? To house thousands of Japanese Americans.
In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was and the experiences of her family. She relays the mundane and remarkable details of daily life during an extraordinary period of American history: The wartime imprisonment of civilians, most native-born Americans, in their own country, without trial, and by their fellow Americans.
She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar.