Title: The climate of the country
First published: 1999
Description: This is a novel set in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp during WWII.  It is loosely based on the experiences of the author's parents.  Mueller was born in Tule Lake to a Caucasian couple who worked in the camp.  Her father, a conscientious objector, set up the consumer Co-operative Store system and her mother taught in the camp school.  The book is unusual within the canon of Japanese American Internment literature in that it deals directly with the day-to-day operations and the politics in the camps during the period shortly after the mandated signing of loyalty oaths by the prisoners.  It is a hard look at what transpired as a result of the oaths.
Subjects: Concentration camp inmates, Concentration camps, Conscientious objectors, Fiction, Japanese American Internment, Japanese Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Tule Lake Relocation Center, History, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, historical, general, South america, fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Places: California, Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.), Tule Lake Segregation Camp
Time periods: Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War Two
LC classification: PS3563.U354 C58 1999