A review by ehmannky
Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

I learned of Okubo's memoir through an art exhibition at my local fine art museum and I am so glad I did. Her work is really beautiful, and the captions at the bottom of each work of art provide stark insight into what life was like in the American Japanese internment camps. I think that there's not much to critique in terms of what the book is about. If you're not familiar with the history of Topaz, I think this will provide a quick and really personal introduction, and if you are familiar, you get an first-person artistic insight into the experience. I think what struck me this time reading about it was just how much of a waste of human potential, money, and time that anti-Japanese racism created here.