Her grandparents were incarcerated at Topaz as teenagers, and though they had both passed away by the time she began work on the book, she was able to interview surviving relatives starting in 2016. An author's note details the book's origin in the author's family history, historical liberties taken, and its contemporary relevance.įantasy trilogy, Chee turned to her family's wartime incarceration for
The group experiences love and loss, sees friendships deepen and dissolve, and grapples with the question of what it means to be American and "Japanese" while coming of age in uniquely difficult circumstances. The range of voices allows the story to cover the core events of the experience, from leaving home, incarceration at Young adult novel by Traci Chee that tells the wartime incarceration story through the eyes of a group of teenage friends from San Francisco.Įach of the sixteen chapters-which begin just prior to the forced removal and end with the return to San Francisco in 1945-is written in the first-person voice of one of fourteen teens, with each getting at least one chapter.
Theme:Coming of age Companionship as salvation Facing darkness Importance of community įacility:Topaz (Central Utah) - Delta, Utah Tanforan - San Bruno, California
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