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vikingwolf's review
3.0
Jeanne Wakatsuki was only a child when the Japanese bombed Hawaii and brought the USA into the war. Now Japanese Americans are suspected of being spies and in 1942, her family are uprooted from their home and sent to live at the Manzanar internment camp. This is a true story showing the terrible price that innocent Americans paid in World War 2 just because they had Japanese heritage.
This is the first book that I've read about the internment of Americans in their own country and it was a fascinating and disturbing read. The conditions were basic and hardly ideal, though not on the scale of concentration camps. It just seemed a terrible thing to do to innocent civilians including children. I get that the government was worried about spies but innocent children should not have been treated like criminals. What a way to grow up.
This is the first book that I've read about the internment of Americans in their own country and it was a fascinating and disturbing read. The conditions were basic and hardly ideal, though not on the scale of concentration camps. It just seemed a terrible thing to do to innocent civilians including children. I get that the government was worried about spies but innocent children should not have been treated like criminals. What a way to grow up.
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