'Of White Ashes' novel explores Japanese-American internment, Hiroshima bombing through fiction
The novel is based on the experiences of author Kent Matsumoto's parents.
Here & Now’s Celeste Headlee speaks with authors Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto. Their novel “Of White Ashes” tells the story of a romance between two Japanese-Americans, one who was confined in an American internment camp during World War II, and the other who was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. The novel is based on the experiences of Kent Matsumoto’s parents.
The cover of “Of White Ashes.” (Courtesy Loyola College)
Book excerpt: ‘Of White Ashes’
By Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent
