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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
For the most part I really liked this. Very important to history and was easily overlooked for too long. It is a point in time everyone can either use a reminder about or take the time to learn about. And the art is wonderful. Not sure how I feel about the author putting herself in as the MC. I feel if a younger reader got this, read this happened and saw the character was the author, they can get confused and thing re-living history like this is possible, verses simply as a living memory passed down. I could have done without the politics being dragged into it. Abridged one-liners taken out of context that didn't need to be there. It also makes it where this book with soon become dated, instead of timeless.
Kiku is a modern teen who suddenly gets sucked back in time to WWII and the Japanese internment camps. She appears in the same camps as her grandmother. At first they are quick trips, but soon she ends up staying for a longer period of time. She discovers what life was really like in the camps and how those who were in them suffered.
A historical fiction graphic novel with a girl who travels through time. Or, as she puts it, is displaced. She goes back to the era of WWII when Japanese Americans were put into camps in the US and lives through half a year of this. At the end, she talks with her mother about this experience and it turns out that they shared it, and then discuss the history of the camps as well the possible future of the US.
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
"It struck me that the administration's attempts to hush up the truth of the shooting was eerily similar to the government's later attempts to cover up the truth of the camps. They can't deny it happened, but they can hide the facts and claim they were only acting out of duty. But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together - we can make sure it is not repeated."
I heard great things about this graphic novel this summer when it first came out. I'm a sucker for a good graphic novel, and when multiple people say a graphic novel is worth reading, then I'm for sure going to pick it up. I didn't really know anything about this book other than what I could infer from the cover picture. I knew it probably had something to do with a camp of some sort, but I had no idea we were going to see Kiku travel through time to visit the Japanese internment camps with her grandmother.
I've been reading more and more about the Japanese internment camps in the last couple of years, and it's been really good for me to learn more about this part of history that was hidden from me when I was in school (both high school and undergrad). This book definitely reminded me of [b:They Called Us Enemy|42527866|They Called Us Enemy|George Takei|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1541125895l/42527866._SX50_.jpg|66245778] in the way that there was a young person trying to navigate the internment camps without fully understanding what was happening in the given moment. What made Displacement stand out to me was the fact that this book focused on the effects of the internment camps several generations later. Kiku didn't experience the camps herself (except through the time travel version), but she did realize that many things she knew and didn't know about the internment camps and that period of history were a direct result of what Kiku's grandmother experienced while she was in the camps.
I really enjoyed this perspective, because I don't often think about the long-term generational effects of what a traumatic event like the Japanese internment camps does for the culture of an entire nation. I wonder how much, if any, of my own European culture has been wiped out as a result of my ancestors migrating to the United States and, facing discrimination themselves, hid or eliminated part of their culture to fit in and try to forget the pain of what the people of America did to them. This graphic novel was incredibly well done and contained so many fantastic quotes throughout the book. I also liked the connections with modern-day politics and the harmful rhetoric from the Trump administration. We have to remember our past so we don't make the same mistakes again.
This book would be appropriate for middle and high school readers as well as adult readers.
TW: internment camps, off-page killing of Japanese citizen by officers
I heard great things about this graphic novel this summer when it first came out. I'm a sucker for a good graphic novel, and when multiple people say a graphic novel is worth reading, then I'm for sure going to pick it up. I didn't really know anything about this book other than what I could infer from the cover picture. I knew it probably had something to do with a camp of some sort, but I had no idea we were going to see Kiku travel through time to visit the Japanese internment camps with her grandmother.
I've been reading more and more about the Japanese internment camps in the last couple of years, and it's been really good for me to learn more about this part of history that was hidden from me when I was in school (both high school and undergrad). This book definitely reminded me of [b:They Called Us Enemy|42527866|They Called Us Enemy|George Takei|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1541125895l/42527866._SX50_.jpg|66245778] in the way that there was a young person trying to navigate the internment camps without fully understanding what was happening in the given moment. What made Displacement stand out to me was the fact that this book focused on the effects of the internment camps several generations later. Kiku didn't experience the camps herself (except through the time travel version), but she did realize that many things she knew and didn't know about the internment camps and that period of history were a direct result of what Kiku's grandmother experienced while she was in the camps.
I really enjoyed this perspective, because I don't often think about the long-term generational effects of what a traumatic event like the Japanese internment camps does for the culture of an entire nation. I wonder how much, if any, of my own European culture has been wiped out as a result of my ancestors migrating to the United States and, facing discrimination themselves, hid or eliminated part of their culture to fit in and try to forget the pain of what the people of America did to them. This graphic novel was incredibly well done and contained so many fantastic quotes throughout the book. I also liked the connections with modern-day politics and the harmful rhetoric from the Trump administration. We have to remember our past so we don't make the same mistakes again.
This book would be appropriate for middle and high school readers as well as adult readers.
TW: internment camps, off-page killing of Japanese citizen by officers
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Xenophobia
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent
Minor: Racial slurs, Murder, War
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
another one where i shed tears!!!! everything is so beautifully done!!
also want to note that i lucked out ordering a used copy on amazon — i somehow got a signed first edition! one of my favorite graphic novels so far
also want to note that i lucked out ordering a used copy on amazon — i somehow got a signed first edition! one of my favorite graphic novels so far
Loved the nod to Octavia Butler at the end. I like how it shows up close the injustice of America's concentration camps and how we're one step away from bringing them back.