A girl like you
By: Maureen Lindley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408802311; 9781408843222
Subjects: Manzanar War Relocation Center; Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction
Description: In the 1930s and '40s in California, Satomi is the only girl with one white parent and one Japanese parent. There are Japanese families, but Satomi is neither a part of the white community nor the Japanese one. Things get worse for Satomi--and all people with even a drop of Japanese blood--when Japan poses a threat to the United States. Her father joins the Navy, in part to fight for his country, and in part to protect his wife and daughter from racist citizens, but dies in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Rather than being celebrated as a hero, his death is ignored by the neighbors who shun Satomi and her mother. Shortly thereafter, they are taken to internment camps where they are treated like animals. But in the camp she finds a community for the first time.