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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.

During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees.

One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life.

In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals he

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Farewell to Manzanar

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
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INTRODUCTION

Published in 1973, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment depicts the profound impact that U.S. government-ordered internment during World War II had on Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's first-person account of her family's experiences recalls an important episode in both the Wakatsuki's history and the nation's history. The memoir presents intimate family moments as well as broader social events. Arguments between the highly Americanized Jeanne and her more traditional Japanese father Ko stand alongside Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor—the event that drew the United States into World War II—and the internment of over one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans.

Unfolding in three parts, this memoir recounts the Wakatsuki's experiences of living in Southern California during and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. From 1942

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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

January 4, 2022

several years ago i took a postwar japan course that assigned this memoir, but it was dropped off the syllabus at the end of the year and i didn't take the time to revisit it. i wish i had sooner, because it's an important story, especially within the context of the many cultural shifts of the WWII era.

jeanne wakatsuki was one of thousands of japanese americans sent to internment camps during WWII, and she resided there during a significant chunk of her childhood. her story is told through the eyes of a child who cannot fully understand all that she's enduring; not only the shoddy living conditions and the concept of being restricted to internment, but witnessing the endless struggles of her family.

jeanne's anguished father is intense. he suffers miserably, escapes with the numbing of alcoholism, abuses jeanne's mother, and remains caught between his loyalty to japan and his loyalty to the US. he is plaintively attached to japan despite knowing that