The Rogue Wave: A Novel

A stunning debut chronicling a Japanese family’s life on the windswept coast of central California and the tragedy of their forced removal and incarceration during World War II

A young woman walks down a snowy sidewalk in a Midwestern city. It is 1944, the country is at war, and this is not her home. Rather, she returns in memory to her upbringing on a wild and astonishingly beautiful piece of land: Point Lobos, California.

There, it is the 1930s. And while her family’s commitment to their ne...