num_pages: 240
description: Min Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into protective custody shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660 Okubo's illustrated memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah illuminates this experience with poignant drawings and witty candid text. This classic in Asian American literature and American history with a new introduction by Christine Hong is available for the first time in both a traditional paperback format and an artist's edition oversize and in hardcover to better illustrate the innovative artwork as originally envisioned by Okubo.[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing heartbreaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh - and if he is an American too - blush. - Pearl BuckA remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account. . . . In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text [Okubo] documents the whole episode . . . all that she saw objectively yet with a warmth of understanding.  - New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Citizen 13660
publisher: University of Washington Press