Kiyo's Story
by Kiyo Sato
2020-04-19 08:29:20
This is the âunforgettableâ memoir of a familyâs journey from Japan to Californiaâand through multiple internment camps during World War II (Sacramento News & Review). âFirst generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the t...
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This is the âunforgettableâ memoir of a familyâs journey from Japan to Californiaâand through multiple internment camps during World War II (Sacramento News & Review). âFirst generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the tribulations her family endured in America through the Great Depression and WWII. Emigrating from Japan in 1911, Satoâs parents built a home and cultivated a marginal plot of land into a modest but sustaining fruit farm. One of nine children, Sato recounts days on the farm playing with her siblings and lending a hand with child-care, house cleaning and grueling farm work. Her anecdotes regarding the familyâs devotion to one another despite their meager lifestyle (her father mending a little brotherâs shoe with rubber sliced from a discarded tire) gain cumulative weight, especially when hard times turn tragic: in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the Satos find themselves swept up by U.S. authorities and shuffled through multiple Japanese internment camps, ending up in a desert facility while the farm falls to ruin. Satoâs memoir is a poignant, eye-opening testament to the worst impulses of a nation in fear, and the power of family to heal the most painful wounds.â âPublishers Weekly
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