A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake

A deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration

In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.

Following an innovative structure, Nimura ...