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A review by ljrinaldi
Stealing Home by J. Torres
3.0
I really wanted to like this book more. I have not read many stories of what the Canadian version of the Japanese Internment was like, but from this book, I would take it that it was just as bad as it waas in the states.
And perhaps I was spoiled by reading George Takai's autobiographical account of what the camps were like in his excellent graphic novel "They called us Enemy".
And I realize that this is trying to show how Baseball make it easier to endure.
But with such a buildup, why stop with them playing the game? It is almost as if the author said, ok, it's all ok now, and nothing more to see here.
But, if this is to show the hardships that the Japanese Canadians went through, then that works. But, there should have been more to the book than this.
Thanks to Edelweiss for making this book available for an honest review.
And perhaps I was spoiled by reading George Takai's autobiographical account of what the camps were like in his excellent graphic novel "They called us Enemy".
And I realize that this is trying to show how Baseball make it easier to endure.
But with such a buildup, why stop with them playing the game? It is almost as if the author said, ok, it's all ok now, and nothing more to see here.
But, if this is to show the hardships that the Japanese Canadians went through, then that works. But, there should have been more to the book than this.
Thanks to Edelweiss for making this book available for an honest review.