Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
The story of a group of young, idealistic friends in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1945. Caught between an ancient culture overwhelmed by Western colonialism, each of the friends must try and find his...
Nine interrelated stories make up this debut collection, mostly about the San Francisco-based Terasaki family, living with the legacy of the Japanese American internment and the devastation of World War...
A collection of poignant short stories, mostly about the residents of Lunalilo, Hawai'i, including new picture brides arriving from Japan, young schoolgirls and their dreams, young working women, the silent,...
Ichiro Yamada, a second-generation Japanese American, returns to his home city of Seattle after spending two years in an American prison camp and another two years in jail. He returns home a pariah, for...
Poetry collection by an award-winning, third-generation Japanese American. As a child, Inada was interned during World War II with his parents at Jerome Camp in Arkansas and Amache Camp in Colorado. In...
Award-winning second poetry collection, which draws on Hongo’s diverse background, filled with images of Hawaiian volcanoes, war-torn battlefields, a high school classroom, Chinatown back alleys, and California beaches.
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The autobiographical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Berkeley, California, and her family’s internment experiences at Camp Topaz during World War II.
During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese...
The autobiograhical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Seattle in the 1920s through the '40s, her family’s incarceration during World War II in Idaho, and her new life as a...
The autobiographical account, told through sketches and text, of a second-generation Japanese American woman, who was reduced to Citizen Number 13660 and incarcerated during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in...
The saga of one Korean family, interwoven with the country’s turbulent history, from 1900 to the present. The Kang clan, once a powerful North...
A young Korean American woman, trying to come to terms with her strong ethnic heritage, travels to Korea for the first time. There she discovers her grandmother’s legacy of survival,...
Jeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was...
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