Fiction
Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Call Number: F/HOUISBN: 0758204566Publication Date: 2004-11-01Traces the life of Sayo, born under the disastrous sign of the Fire Horse, who comes to America for an arranged marriage and years later is imprisoned with her family in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
When the Emperor Was Divine by Call Number: F/OTSISBN: 9780385721813Publication Date: 2003-10-14This heartbreaking, bracingly unsentimental debut describes in poetic detail the travails of a Japanese family living in an internment camp during World War II, raising the specter of wartime injustice in bone-chilling fashion.
Poetry
Legends from Camp by Call Number: 811.54/INAISBN: 1566890047Publication Date: 1992-07-01These poems are playful, full of life, and easy to understand, even when the subject is somber--as in the first section, "Camp," which recounts the author's experience as a boy in the Japanese internment camps. The other four sections cover a wide array of subjects, from jazz, to life in Fresno, California, to love and family.
