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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
Displacement is a stunning exploration of the Japanese-American and Japanese immigrant experience in interment camps during WWII. Teenaged Kiku Hughes calls her brief trips back in time to experience what her grandmother and great-grandparents experienced displacements. Little is known about their time in the camps because they rarely spoke of it, but Kiku was able to live the confusion and fear, the hunger and grief, the impossible choices people made.
This memoir-based book is gorgeous. The art is simple and beautiful and panels are open, sometimes sprawling, like the inhospitable landscapes surrounding the camps. While the main focus is the past, the author pulls no punches when it comes to comparing Japanese internment camps and the political climate that allowed them to occur to our current political environmental. This is a powerful must-read.
This memoir-based book is gorgeous. The art is simple and beautiful and panels are open, sometimes sprawling, like the inhospitable landscapes surrounding the camps. While the main focus is the past, the author pulls no punches when it comes to comparing Japanese internment camps and the political climate that allowed them to occur to our current political environmental. This is a powerful must-read.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very good read, this is a very good introduction to the topic of the Japanese interment camps. I’m really glad I read this for now I know much more than what I was taught in high school, cannot recommend this book enough.
( 5 stars )
this was beautiful and so educational. i fortunately learnt more about japanese internment camps in one of my literature classes, but reading more from someone who’s experienced the generational trauma of internment themselves is always an invaluable experience.
this was beautiful and so educational. i fortunately learnt more about japanese internment camps in one of my literature classes, but reading more from someone who’s experienced the generational trauma of internment themselves is always an invaluable experience.
Kiku is on a trip to San Francisco with her mother to visit the neighborhood her grandmother grew up in. When they finally find the area, they discover that the houses had been torn down and a mall was put up in its place. Kiku’s mom takes the opportunity to visit the mall and Kiku waits outside. What she doesn’t expect is to be “displaced” back in time to when her grandmother was a child. That displacement didn’t last long, but a second and third displacement soon follows. During these trips back in time, Kiku discovers that her knowledge about what happened to people of Japanese descent in America during World War II is very incomplete.
Displacement is a graphic novel that is partly based on Kiku’s family during World War II and other times. Hughes knows that we can’t know everything that was happening during these turbulent times, so she created a storyline that allows for gaps in the narrator’s knowledge also. I read this graphic novel in two sessions, so even the most reluctant reader can enjoy the story and the history that is included. I feel this book would even be enjoyed by those who normally don’t read graphic novels, but enjoy unique historical tales.
Displacement is a graphic novel that is partly based on Kiku’s family during World War II and other times. Hughes knows that we can’t know everything that was happening during these turbulent times, so she created a storyline that allows for gaps in the narrator’s knowledge also. I read this graphic novel in two sessions, so even the most reluctant reader can enjoy the story and the history that is included. I feel this book would even be enjoyed by those who normally don’t read graphic novels, but enjoy unique historical tales.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a quick but powerful read.
A mix of sci-fi interwoven with actual history about Japanese internment in the US after Pearl Harbor. Hard to read about but something I unfortunately have read all too little about. Great color palette.
4.5 stars
I've read several books on the Internment and people's experiences in it (When the Emperor was Divine, When they call you Enemy) and expected this book to be a simple way to add another voice to a story I already was rather familiar with. I was pleased to find this book exceeded my expectations.
Early on, it becomes quite apparent that this story is similar to Octavia Butler's 'Kindred'. I lazily read on for light reading, expecting the book to be a re-take on the concept in a different setting and tamed down a bit (Kindred could be described as horror, whereas this book is a graphic novel for children and keeps a much friendlier tone overall). As I read on, I saw the book develop Butler's concept into something of its own right, carefully tailored to fit this story, this family, and this piece of American Injustice just so. I really enjoyed and appreciated the new insights to Japanese-American culture that I gleaned from revisiting this history through yet another perspective. And I appreciated the ways that the ending made the story so much more relevant to the here and now, and to people who don't have Japanese heritage but who care to get involved in the grassroots promise of 'never again' that America tries to make to itself concerning this history.
Definitely a great quick read if you're looking to learn or connect more with this historical event, or with the present that points us toward a better future.
I've read several books on the Internment and people's experiences in it (When the Emperor was Divine, When they call you Enemy) and expected this book to be a simple way to add another voice to a story I already was rather familiar with. I was pleased to find this book exceeded my expectations.
Early on, it becomes quite apparent that this story is similar to Octavia Butler's 'Kindred'. I lazily read on for light reading, expecting the book to be a re-take on the concept in a different setting and tamed down a bit (Kindred could be described as horror, whereas this book is a graphic novel for children and keeps a much friendlier tone overall). As I read on, I saw the book develop Butler's concept into something of its own right, carefully tailored to fit this story, this family, and this piece of American Injustice just so. I really enjoyed and appreciated the new insights to Japanese-American culture that I gleaned from revisiting this history through yet another perspective. And I appreciated the ways that the ending made the story so much more relevant to the here and now, and to people who don't have Japanese heritage but who care to get involved in the grassroots promise of 'never again' that America tries to make to itself concerning this history.
Definitely a great quick read if you're looking to learn or connect more with this historical event, or with the present that points us toward a better future.