{"id":49652,"date":"2022-08-17T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49652"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:20:20","slug":"my-nest-of-silence-by-matt-faulkner-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/my-nest-of-silence-by-matt-faulkner-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49666\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/My-Nest-of-Silence-Matt-Faulkner-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/My-Nest-of-Silence-Matt-Faulkner-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/My-Nest-of-Silence-Matt-Faulkner-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter learning of Europe\u2019s Nazi concentration camps as a child, Matt Faulkner also discovered how Americans of Japanese descent were unjustly imprisoned during WWII, a revelation made more urgent because of family connections: his great-aunt Adeline; her daughter, Mary; and Mary\u2019s children were held at Manzanar Relocation Center because Mary\u2019s father was Japanese. Their experience of removal and incarceration inspired Faulkner\u2019s <em>Gaijin\u00a0<\/em>(2014); his latest is an impressively fuller account of the Japanese American WWII experience, spotlighting the Asai family held at Manzanar.<\/p>\n<p>Ichiro and Aki (Ichiro\u00a0was Adeline\u2019s husband\u2019s name) are the parents of Mak and Mari (clearly a nod to Mary). Despite Ichiro\u2019s protestations, Mak enlists and eventually serves on the \u201cGo for Broke\u201d battalion, the 100th\/442nd that became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. Until Mak returns, Mari takes a vow of silence, facing her own fearful battles in camp.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner presents an ingenious hybrid format, assigning the prose chapters to Mari, who writes what she can\u2019t say, while the graphic panels belong to Mak. Faulkner stupendously draws Mak\u2019s experiences as a Japanese American soldier (much of the army\u2019s dismissive, racist behaviors are on full display), and the revealing panels make for a cutting contrast to Mak\u2019s protectively reassuring letters to Mari.<\/p>\n<p>Deftly combining the personal and historical, Faulkner alchemizes his extended family\u2019s past into magnificent, essential testimony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/My-Nest-of-Silence-\/pid=9764723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW After learning of Europe\u2019s Nazi concentration camps as a child, Matt Faulkner also discovered how Americans of Japanese descent were unjustly imprisoned during WWII, a revelation made more urgent because of family connections: his great-aunt Adeline; 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