To depict Camp Tacoma, where much of the book is set, Nguyen relies on a ... Characters discuss Japanese internment often. The imagining of anti-Vietnamese fervor echoes the treatment of Muslims ...

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

While the book showcases the poor accommodations those interred experienced, Joshua said it also highlights how the Japanese American ... the majority of the internment camps were located ...

“It’s a black mark. It’s a black mark to learn from.” Taniguchi said she didn’t learn about Japanese internment camps while growing up. Raised on the East Coast and later attending the ...