Asian American History

Traces 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.

This 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.

These 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.

A memoir of the life of Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II. Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan.