She also shares her impressions of her father's imprisonment at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, North Dakota (for suspicion as an enemy spy), her brother's meeting with Japanese relatives in Hiroshima after the bombing of that city, and her own challenges as a young Japanese American girl living in the 1940s and 1950s. Jeanne recalls the frightening events leading up to her family's forced evacuation to Manzanar Internment Camp when she was only seven years old. Beginning with the announcement of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Jeanne (the narrator) shares a flood of painful memories and reflections about her own family and her Japanese American neighbors in Southern California. Houston, in 1973 and dedicated to her deceased parents and brother, presents a vivid sequence of episodes illustrating the disastrous effects of racial prejudice on law-abiding, patriotic Japanese Americans during World War II. HOUSTON JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTONįarewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment, the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston coauthored with her husband, James D. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment
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