Farewell to Manzanar (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
- First Published: 1973
- Time of Work: 1941–1972
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: Jeanne Wakatsuki, Mr. Wakatsuki, Mrs. Wakatsuki, Woody, James D. Houston
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Prejudices or antipathies, World War II, California, West, U.S., War, Loyalty, Patriotism, Japan or Japanese people, Prisoners of war, Japanese Americans, Paranoia
- Locales: California
Form and Content
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment is a first-person account of the United States government’s systematic relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The book, written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her husband, James D. Houston, takes the form of a family memoir, beginning with seven-year-old Jeanne’s impressions of being singled out because of the way she looked. Farewell to...
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