readingtomydogs 's review for:

No-No Boy by John Okada

4.0

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I loved this novel written in the 1950s that takes place after a Japanese man, who was in an internment camp and then prison after he refused to serve in the US military, comes back home to Seattle. Excellent writing about being an “other” and shunned even within the Japanese community. I loved the dynamic with his parents and his friends who went a different route during WWII.