The little exile
By: Jeanette Arakawa
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781611720365; 9781611729238
Subjects: State & Local; Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; HISTORY; Biographical; Japanese; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Japanese Americans; FICTION; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Description: "After Pearl Harbor, little Marie Mitsui's typical life of school and playing with friends in San Francisco is upended. Her family and thousands of others of Japanese heritage are under suspicion and forcibly relocated to internment camps far from home. Living conditions in the camps are harsh, but in the end Marie finds freedom and hope for the future. Told from a child's perspective, The Little Exile deftly conveys Marie's innocence, wonder, fear, and outrage. This work of autobiographical fiction is based on the author's own experience as a wartime internee. Jeanette S. Arakawa was born in San Francisco in 1932 and was interned in the 1940s at the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas"--