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Life After Manzanar Kindle Edition

by Naomi Hirahara (Author), Heather C. Lindquist (Author), Art Hansen (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com
 
From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs.
 
Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas.
 
“Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League

“An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho
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“An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration. Oral history testimonies and memoirs help personalize the decades following the war—a period of recovery from the nightmare of an American concentration camp.” --Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho

“Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.” --Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League

About the Author

Naomi Hirahara is a writer of both nonfiction books and mysteries. With Geraldine Knatz, she cowrote Terminal Island: The Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor, which won a Bruckman Award for Excellence and an Award of Merit from the Conference of California Historical Societies. Her Edgar Award–winning Mas Arai mysteries have been published in France, Japan, and Korea. A former editor of the Rafu Shimpo newspaper, she also curates historical exhibitions and writes articles and short stories.

Heather C. Lindquist is the editor of Children of Manzanar, a copublication by Heyday and Manzanar History Association, which received an award of excellence from the Association of Partners for Public Lands in 2013, and she was one of several contributing authors to Freedom in My Heart: Voices from the United States National Slavery Museum, published by National Geographic in 2007. She has also written numerous exhibit scripts for museums, visitor centers, and national parks across the country, including Manzanar National Historic Site; the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville, Georgia; the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Q3YY1S7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heyday (April 3, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 41.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Naomi Hirahara, born and raised in Southern California, is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which features a Japanese American gardener and atomic-bomb survivor who solves crimes (SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI, GASA-GASA GIRL, SNAKESKIN SHAMISEN, BLOOD HINA and STRAWBERRY YELLOW). Books in this series have been translated into Japanese, Korean and French (September 2015 publication date).

MURDER ON BAMBOO LANE, her new mystery series with a female twentysomething LAPD bicycle cop, was released with Berkley Prime Crime in spring 2014. Her next in the series, A GRAVE ON GRAND AVENUE, was released in April 2015.

She also has penned a middle-grade novel, 1001 CRANES, which was chosen as an Honor Book for the Youth Literature of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in 2009.

A former editor of the largest Japanese American newspaper in the U.S., she also has released a number of nonfiction works. A number of her short stories have been included in various anthologies.

For more information, go to her website, www.naomihirahara.com.

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  • Petrea Burchard
    5.0 out of 5 stars I knew, but I didn’t know
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2024
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    The story of the imprisonment of our citizens was familiar to me in the general, historic sense, but the personal stories here, the individuals and their experiences, bring it home. Everyone needs to know.
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  • CDZ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Learn from history; don’t repeat it
    Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2018
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    It’s been said that history repeats itself. Given the current political climate, all Americans should read this book, especially young adults. Young people probably don’t know that in 1942 the then-American President signed an executive order that forced over 100,000 mostly American citizens to leave their homes and be imprisoned in what were effectively concentration camps because they were of Japanese heritage. Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor, so naturally anyone of Japanese heritage fell under suspicion. There was never any evidence or proof of espionage or criminal activity, but the country was at war and hysteria was rampant. Civil rights were trampled.
    This book tells the important story of some Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in Manzanar and their survival struggles both during and after WWII. I learned so much and gained even greater respect for the courage and fortitude of my own parents and grandparents, now all deceased, who were put into a similar camp called Amache in Colorado.
    Read today’s headlines and it is happening again. Oh, the people’s ethnicity is different and America is not officially at war, but mostly innocent people have been detained, separated from their children and held in makeshift prisons without any due process. They my be in this country illegally, but they are human beings! They fled their own countries for a better life for themselves and their children.
    Separating parents from their children and encarcerating them is unnecessary and cruel. Sadly, history is repeating itself.
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  • Timothy Hallinan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful writing, heart-breaking stories
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018
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    Naomi Hirahara is a national resource; not only does she write wonderful mysteries (her latest, "Hiroshima Boy." is one of my top ten books of 1018), but she brings all that focus, empathy, and perfect pitch to nonfiction. If you want to know more about the shameful imprisonment of blameless Japanese-Americans who were judged "guilty" with no trial whatsoever, and how they put their lives back together after the crippling, often brutal experience of the camps, this is the book to read first. A wonderful piece of work.
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  • LA_Biz_Guy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hard story told well of the aftermath of the 1942 expulsion
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019
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    The Japanese-American expulsion from the West Coast in 1942 was a government action that lasted over 3 years, but it is the damage and legal processes that happened afterwards has never been told so clearly as here. The deaths, ongoing health issues, and documented symptoms of generational trauma that happened afterwards are even more important to know of. Along with the fight decades later to get California Historical Market #850 is extremely relevant to our times. Great but difficult read.
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  • tako
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life After Manzanar is an excellent book giving insight as to what happened to the ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018
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    Life After Manzanar is an excellent book giving insight as to what happened to the 'internees' returning to Los Angeles and other locations after they were released from Camp. Being born after camp, I was not aware of the trials and tribulations my parents and brothers and others went through after arriving to Los Angeles after their release from camp.
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  • heavyrunner the first
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the most Powerful Book on the American Concentration Camps where Japanese Citizens were Imprisoned since Farewell to Manza
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018
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    I am on the board of the 501_c_3 at Manzanar. This may be the most powerful book about the WW II concentration camps where citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned solely on the basis of their race since "Farewell to Manzanar."
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  • Lorl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Manzanar book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019
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    Good book and gave as a gift
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  • julio F, Urquidi
    5.0 out of 5 stars after the manzanar
    Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2019
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    Another nice book to read.
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  • C. McConnell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well illustrated, compelling stories
    Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2021
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    As a kid growing up in California, I had heard about the “internment” camps but I don’t recall that they figured in much, if any, of the Social Science curriculum in California in the Fifties, and only later did I realize that I likely had a few friends and acquaintances who were in Manzanar (or other locales) as infants or young children. This book explores how the camp experience influenced those who were confined during part or all of WWII, and how life went for them after the war. This book is not “literature”—but that is not really a criticism. It is well illustrated and it happens to be very solidly bound, which means that it can stand up to frequent use in a library, and I hope it is well-circulated. It’s for adults as well as young people.
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