Farewell to Manzanar

Name: Farewell to Manzanar
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ISBN: 9780618216208

ISBN-10: 0618216200

ISBN-13: 9780618216208

Edition: 1973

Authors: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston, James A. Houston

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During World War II a 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. At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/29/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

James D. Houston is the author of "Continental Drift" & six other novels, & of several nonfiction works, including "Farewell to Manzanar", coauthored with his wife, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

JAMES A. HOUSTON (1921-2005) is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books that portray the striking landscape of the Arctic and its strong independent people. He also produced and directed documentary films and was a master designer for New York City's Steuben Glass Company.



Foreword


A Chronology


Terms Used in This Book






"What Is Pearl Harbor?"



Shikata Ga Nai



A Different Kind of Sand



A Common Master Plan



Almost a Family



Whatever He Did Had Flourish



Fort Lincoln: An Interview



Inu



The Mess Hall Bells



The Reservoir Shack: An Aside



Yes Yes No No






Manzanar, U.S.A.



Outings, Explorations



In the Firebreak



Departures



Free to Go



It's All Starting Over



Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946



Re-entry



A Double Impulse



The Girl of My Dreams






Ten Thousand Voices


Afterword