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Farewell to Manzanar a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment

"... In this moving memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki recalls coming of age in Manzanar, a bleak, dusty settlement behind barbed wire. She tells of her family's struggle to adjust to life in cramped barracks, fearful and searching for purpose in their new surroundings. She describes finding a sense of normal...

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Main Authors: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki (Author), Houston, James D. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2002]
Subjects:
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > California.
Japanese Americans > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • "What Is Pearl Harbor?"
  • Shikata Ga Nai
  • A Different Kind of Sand
  • A Common Master Plan
  • Almost a Family
  • Whatever He Did Had Flourish
  • Fort Lincoln: An Interview
  • Inu
  • The Mess Hall Bells
  • The Reservoir Shack: An Aside
  • Yes Yes No No
  • Manzanar, U.S.A.
  • Outings, Explorations
  • In the Firebreak
  • Departures
  • Free to Go
  • It's All Starting Over
  • Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946
  • Re-entry
  • A Double Impulse
  • The Girl of My Dreams
  • Ten Thousand Voices
  • Afterword.

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