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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
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Read this book for a pnw history class, it was an incredibly informative biography of a woman’s experience as a Japanese first generation American citizen and experience through ww2
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Great book that shows so much optimism in spite of terrible circumstances- finished the book on a hopeful note
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Racism
Minor: Racial slurs
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sone writes honestly and with great poignance, balancing humor, nostalgia, and sorrow in equal measure.
this is a piece that, without a doubt, calls for rigorous unpacking of the historical and political context in which it takes place. i think everyone who reads this will recognize that you can't just discuss this text without bringing in issues of race, war, language, and gender. you can write essays on Nisei Daughter, and i'm certain it's been referenced many, many times in asian american research, so i'm just going to offer, in addition, my personal experience of reading this book -- it's wild. not in a sensational way but more like it's wild how Monica manages to write up this first-person account of before and during and after WW2, including her experience in camp, with so much lightness in her tone, and such a hopeful, human conclusion. i think that's the most important thing about this memoir: to realize it first and foremost as a personal account of a human who wants to put her humanity first before her politicized identity/ies. perhaps it's by holding on to this humanity in her that she's able to remain so very hopeful.