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Only What We Could Carry
Edited by Lawson Fusao Inada |
ORDER -- Item #2886, Price $18.95
... Blankets/ sheets, a tea kettle... Coats to keep warm, cotton shirts to keep cool, Diapers, a deck of cards, the precious hot plate... |
"Only What We Could Carry gathers together the voices of internment-private, personal stories that could have been lost, but will now be heard and felt. It's as if we have a seat at a family dinner, listening to stories passed down from one generation to another, feeling the pain and the spirit of hope."
David Mas Masumoto, author of Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil
Only What We Could Carry gives us yet another way of looking at an American tragedy....Above all, it is a collection of documents which, together, are a testament to the human spirit."
Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
Patricia Wakida is a Yonsei whose parents were interned as children in the Jerome and Gila River camps. She is a graduate of Mills College, where she concentrated on English literature and Asian Studies. Her honors work focused on the Japanese literature that emerged in the wake of the atomic bomb. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in International Quarterly, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Kyoto Journal, and Rafu Shimpo. She is currently special projects coordinator at Heyday Books.
William Hohri is a Nisei born in San Francisco in 1927. He was interned at die Manzanar camp during his high school years and graduated from the University of Chicago after the war. Hohri was the chairperson of the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) and was the lead named plaintiff in the NCJAR's class action suit, "William Hohri, et al. v. U.S.A." He is the author of Repairing America: An Account of the Movement far Japanese-American Redress (1988) and a columnist for the Rafu Shimpo newspaper.