

A sober and moving personal account." - Publishers Weekly " book provides an often vivid, impressionistic picture of how the forced isolation affected the internees.

Told without bitterness, her story reflects the triumph of the human spirit during an extraordinary episode in American history." - Library Journal " describes vividly the life in the camp and the humiliations suffered by the detainees. All in all, a dramatic, telling account of one of the most reprehensible events in the history of America's treatment of its minorities." - New York Times "A classic." - Los Angeles Times, "A poignant memoir from a Japanese American. "A poignant memoir from a Japanese American.
