Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida
Yoshiko Uchida describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second-generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in Utah during World War II. During the U.S. government's shameful practice of detaining Japanese Americans in remote camps during World War II, whole families were uprooted and shipped far from home. Their belongings were sold at fire-sale prices, or confiscated with no recourse. Uchida writes, "The camp was a one mile square area, surrounded by barbed wire fence, with guard towers at each of its four corners." After a year in confinement, Uchida and her sister were allowed to leave to attend school in the East. The happiness she felt in release was tempered for her by the sorrow of leaving her parents, still incarcerated.
Call Number: J B Uchida
ISBN: 0671741632
Publication Date: 1991-09-01