Nisei Daughter

by Monica Sone, S. Frank Miyamoto

Overview

With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens--she and her family were uprooted from their home and imprisoned in a camp. In this book, first published in 1952, she provides a unique personal account of these experiences.

"Monica Sone's account of life in the relocation camps is both fair and unsparing. It is also deeply touching, and occasionally hilarious." --New York Herald Tribune

"The deepest impression that this unaffected, honest little story made on me was of smiling courage." --San Francisco Chronicle

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295956886
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	10/01/1979
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.01(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 1979 Edition Preface to the 1979 Edition

Introduction to the 2014 Edition

1. A Shocking Fact of Life2. The Stubborn Twig 3. An Unpredictable Japanese Lady 4. The Japanese Touch 5. We Meet Real Japanese 6. We Are Outcasts 7. Paradise Sighted 8. Pearl Harbor Echoes in Seattle 9. Life in Camp Harmony10. Henry’s Wedding and a Most Curious Tea Party 11. Eastward, Nisei 12. Deeper into the Land

Editorial Reviews

With perspective, humor, and understanding, Monica Sone describes growing up in Seattle in the 1930s, then being deported with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II. Her descriptions of the roundup, the move to the Puyallup fairgrounds, and life in the camps opened the hearts and eyes of her readers, and the book continues to urge Americans to be more decent to all its people.

Humanities Washington Blog - Dan Lamberton

Nisei Daughter is a book of its time, but it deserves to be read and re-read and considered within changing cultural perspectives and treasured for the voice it gives to a period in American history that still needs to be understood and should never be forgotten.

International Examiner - Sumi Hayashi

"Rare is the book with staying power like that of Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter. . . . The book also owes its appeal to the immediacy of its narrative, to its incisive, unsentimental portraits of family and friends, and finally, to the author’s own abundant humanity."

Pacific Northwest Quarterly - Greg Lewis

"Sone reminds us that the anti-Japanese sentiment and threat of war [was] looming over them . . . but it doesn’t stop the family members from going forward with their lives – showing the kind of strength we all wish we had."

Northwest Asian Weekly - Samantha Pak

Rare is the book with staying power like that of Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter. . . . The book also owes its appeal to the immediacy of its narrative, to its incisive, unsentimental portraits of family and friends, and finally, to the author's own abundant humanity.

--Greg Lewis "Pacific Northwest Quarterly"

Sone reminds us that the anti-Japanese sentiment and threat of war [was] looming over them . . . but it doesn't stop the family members from going forward with their lives - showing the kind of strength we all wish we had.

--Samantha Pak "Northwest Asian Weekly"

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