Author: Julie Otsuka
Bugs: 4
Review by: DailyCrossWord
A novel from one family's experience during the Japanese Internment. Not a very long book but I found it powerful. It made me think about the injustices being committed today by our government. At what price do we sacrifice individual rights? After 9/11 there was much fear of certain nationalities. How would you have felt towards the Japanese during WWII? It is easy to see how wrong that was in hindsight but would you have felt the same in the forties? In a very quiet, personal way you get to see the effects of prejudice on one ordinary family and the price that is paid when the government can just whisk them away without just cause.
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