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This was such a good graphic novel memoir! It was eye-opening but also heartbreaking to see what people have went through the in Japanese internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the innocent eyes of young George Takei. It really shows the racial profiling way back then with other people of color. It brought me back to the time I watched the Allegiance Broadway show years ago starring Lea Solanga & George Takei too! It must’ve been hard for Japanese Americans who were forced to have allegiance with America who ridiculed and imprisoned them while their own mother country was struggling on their own. Do they have allegiance to where they come from or do they have allegiance to the new home them built but is failing them as “free country”. This was a power graphic novel to pick up & I recommend it to everyone!

erratastigmata's review

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dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

jess_mango's review

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5.0

4.5 stars. An important and timely read. In this graphic “novel” memoir, actor George Takei shares his family’s experiences being relocated to internment camps by the US government during WWII.

aubreycondition's review

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

ladylovestead's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

George Takei's family story is powerful and a graphic novel was the perfect format in which to tell it.

icanreadish's review

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medium-paced

5.0

An engaging, accessible primary source about George Takei's childhood in two Japanese Interment camps.

I appreciated the full context of so many Japanese-American perspectives, including radicals and objectors, as well as the broad strokes on different lawsuits, court rulings, and help from others like Wayne Collins. This is a full, easily readable historical account.

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