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A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Main Author: Grant, Kimi Cunningham
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2012, c2011.
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Grant, Kimi Cunningham.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans > Wyoming.
Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Wyoming.
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Summary:A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Item Description:"1st Pegasus Books January 2012."
Memoir based on author's thesis: Light's end in the sky : a memoir of Heart Mountain.
Physical Description:325 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-325).
ISBN:9781605982724
1605982725
Author Notes:Kimi Cunningham Grant is the 2009 recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in creative nonfiction. She lives in central Pennsylvania with her family and is an instructor of English at Penn State University.

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