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Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream
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Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream

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This is the “unforgettable” memoir of a family’s journey from Japan to California—and through multiple internment camps during World War II (Sacramento News & Review).
 
“First generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the tribulations her family endured in America through the Great Depression and WWII. Emigrating from Japan in 1911, Sato’s parents built a home and cultivated a marginal plot of land into a modest but sustaining fruit farm. One of nine children, Sato recounts days on the farm playing with her siblings and lending a hand with child-care, house cleaning and grueling farm work. Her anecdotes regarding the family’s devotion to one another despite their meager lifestyle (her father mending a little brother’s shoe with rubber sliced from a discarded tire) gain cumulative weight, especially when hard times turn tragic: in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the Satos find themselves swept up by U.S. authorities and shuffled through multiple Japanese internment camps, ending up in a desert facility while the farm falls to ruin. Sato’s memoir is a poignant, eye-opening testament to the worst impulses of a nation in fear, and the power of family to heal the most painful wounds.” —Publishers Weekly
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 2009
ISBN9781569477144
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream

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    This book is an exceptional monument to the courage and sensibility of Kiyo Sato's parents. Her father came to the U.S to work in 1911 as a 14-year-old peach picker. On his first trip back to Japan, he met and married her mother and they successfully raised nine children under some of the most trying circumstances. They bought a small fruit farm near Sacramento, CA and were quite successful growing strawberries prior to Pearl Harbor. When all Japanese living on the West Coast were rounded up and sent to live in internment camps, they lost nearly all of their belingings. Luckily, when they got out after the war, they still owned their 20 acres.

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