Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment Hardcover - 2002

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 fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Written with her husband, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar.

Farewell to Manzanar has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the twentieth century’s 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies.

Details

• Title Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
• Author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; James D. Houston (Illustrator); James D. Houston
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition Reissue
• Pages 208
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
• Date 2002-04-29
• ISBN 9780618216208 / 0618216200
• Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
• Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.76 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 1.93 cm)
• Ages 08 to 12 years
• Grade levels 3 - 7
• Reading level 1040
• Library of Congress subjects Japanese Americans, Japanese Americans - Evacuation and
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002727748
• Dewey Decimal Code B