Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

208 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced

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Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously feat...

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tense 14%
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relaxing 1%

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