Kiyo's story
Subtitle: a Japanese-American family's quest for the American dream
By: Kiyo Sato
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781569478660
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Biography; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Work titles: Dandelion through the crack
Description: In this memoir, originally published as Dandelion Through the Crack, first generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the tribulations her family endured in America through the Great Depression and WWII. Emigrating from Japan in 1911, Sato's parents built a home and cultivated a marginal plot of land into a modest but sustaining fruit farm. One of nine children, Sato recounts days on the farm playing with her siblings and lending a hand with child-care, house cleaning and grueling farm work. Her anecdotes regarding the family's devotion to one another despite their meager lifestyle (her father mending a little brother's shoe with rubber sliced from a discarded tire) gain cumulative weight, especially when hard times turn tragic: in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the Satos find themselves swept up by U.S. authorities and shuffled through multiple Japanese internment camps, ending up in a desert facility while the farm falls to ruin.
Notes: "A memoir"--Cover.

Originally published by Willow Valley Press as: Dandelion through the crack : the Sato family quest for the American dream.