353 reviews for:

No-No Boy

John Okada

3.93 AVERAGE

saravee's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ofclumsywords's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readingtomydogs's review against another edition

4.0

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I loved this novel written in the 1950s that takes place after a Japanese man, who was in an internment camp and then prison after he refused to serve in the US military, comes back home to Seattle. Excellent writing about being an “other” and shunned even within the Japanese community. I loved the dynamic with his parents and his friends who went a different route during WWII. 

shanemarie's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lonesomedove6's review

4.0

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Shoutout Professor Fleming at Cuesta College for assigning this, it is so good.

aweekinthelife's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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glad this book exists and i really appreciated the introduction and foreword in this specific edition that gave context for this book. gives a picture of lives of different Japanese-Americans after japanese internment and especially the lives of the young men who answered “no” to both loyalty questions (for a variety of reasons). 

 

pairs well as a continuation from How We Get Free by Traci Chee. 

manglitter's review against another edition

4.0

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This book is a must read classic and I don't know why I've never heard about it until I found it by accident at the Library.

dsimone's review

4.25

challenging

Plot or Character Driven: Character

mtnmama's review

4.0

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A very different side of the Japanese-American experience of WWII.

sandybereading's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes