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Author:
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Title:
Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston.
Publisher:
Laurel-Leaf Books,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xv, 208, 14 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California.
Japanese Americans--Biography.
Other Authors:
Houston, James D.
Notes:
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1973. With new afterword.
Contents:
What is Pearl Harbor? -- Shikata ga nai -- Different kind of sand -- Common master plan -- Almost a family -- Whatever he did had flourish -- Fort Lincoln : an interview -- Inu -- Mess hall bells -- Reservoir shack : an aside -- Yes yes no no -- Manzanar, U.S.A. -- Outings, explorations -- In the firebreak -- Departures -- Free to go -- It's all starting over -- Ka-ke, near Hiroshima, April 1946 -- Re-entry -- Double impulse -- Girl of my dreams -- Ten thousand voices.
Summary:
The American-born author describes her family's experience and impressions when they were forced to relocate in a camp for the Japanese in Owens Valley, California, during World War II
Series:
Readers circle
ISBN:
0553272586 (pbk.)
9780553272581 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)171199279
Locations:
AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

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