It seems the market is flooded with tales of WWII in Europe, and so few that cover the shameful time here in America where the Japanese-Americans were sent to enterment camps. This is a tiny book, but so very powerful in the simple language the author uses as she speaks through each character, mother, daughter, son. What they lived through, from the time the war began and they had to show how NOT Japanese they were, through the impoverished imprisionment, and their miserable return home, hits hard in the heart and gut. And yet, there is an odd sense of detachment due to the author not using names.
