"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.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention- and of a child who discovered what it was like to grow up a prisoner of her native country."-Back coverīiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how it has influenced her life She describes finding a sense of normalcy in activities like glee club and baton-twirling, while armed guards loomed above in the watchtowers. She tells of her family's struggle to adjust to life in cramped barracks, fearful and searching for purpose in their new surroundings. In this moving memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki recalls coming of age in Manzanar, a bleak, dusty settlement behind barbed wire.
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