num_pages: 464
description: Cast out of his native California, "relocated" to an armed camp, and made a victim of almost unbearable family loss, Billy Fujita finds himself in the coldest reaches of Massachusetts in the closing months of World War II. A spirited widow, Margaret Kelly, has helped secure his release in the hope that Fujita, a horticulturist, will turn her barren land into a working farm. Together with Margaret, a war widow named Livvie, and her damaged young son, Garvin, Fujita becomes a reluctant participant in an impromptu family. Providing a profound new perspective on the Japanese-American experience, What the Scarecrow Said is the story of how even in the harshest soil the roots of love and family can survive.
language: English
title: What the Scarecrow Said: Novel, A
titlecomplete: What the Scarecrow Said: Novel, A
characters: Garvin, Margaret Kelly, Billy Fujita, Livvie
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 56
places: Massachusetts
publisher: Harper