Garden of Stones Author:Sophie Littlefield Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up-along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans and taken to the Manzanar prison camp. Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miya... more »ko must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever...and spur her to sins of her own.
Author Sophie Littlefield weaves a tale of stolen innocence and survival that echoes through generations, reverberating between mothers and daughters.« less
Sophie Littlefield is a talented author who writes the BAD day for...series. If you have read that Bad day series and liked it, as I did. Then maybe you are ready to see what else the author wrote.
This book is set in 1978. Patti is about to get married in a few days. She has moved back home with her mother Lucy to get ready for the wedding. Lucy is visited by an officer because a man is dead, and suicide is suspected, but Lucy was seen near the area when this happened.
Then we flash back to WWII and learn about how Lucy knew this man, in the Japanese American concentration camps in California.
This is a well told story that flips back from the 1940s to 1978. Patti is doing some of the investigation, and Lucy starts to tell her about her past.
There are some great surprise endings. I really enjoyed the book. You really didnt see any similarities in the Bad Day series and this book that would even lead me to believe this was the same author. Both are equally good books.