WWII Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S

[Anna]

Could anyone suggest good memoir or history book about concentration camps in the USA for the Japanese Americans?

[Lou]

Try these lists:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/41...

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11...

[Kaion]

I really enjoyed Citizen 13660, which is an illustrative narrative (what we might call a graphic novel today) that I believe was the first published first-person account of the Japanese-American internment camps.

Though No-No Boy takes place outside the camps, the internment is the major spectre in the story, which focuses on Japanese-Americans struggling to re-adjust after the war.

[Anna]

Thank you, Lou and Kaion!

[Liralen]

I second Citizen 13660. I'd also recommend Obasan -- Canadian, not American, but same idea.

[Anna]

Liralen wrote: "I second Citizen 13660. I'd also recommend Obasan -- Canadian, not American, but same idea."

Thanks, Obasan looks awesome. :)

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir about it.

[Anna]

Thanks

[Kate]

Baseball Saved Us

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

[Kim]

Also in the Canadian internment camps category - Wild Daisies In The Sand: Life In A Canadian Internment Camp

[Kaion]

It may be hard to find, but Poston: Camp II, Block 211: Daily Life in an Internment Camp is a very interesting primary source-- it consists of funny little comic strips the author drew while in Poston as a young man.

[SparksofEmber]

Just yesterday I heard about this one for kids - What, No Sushi?: My Solar-Powered History at a Japanese-American Internment Camp