Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence de Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai

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University of Utah Press. New. New book.

Hardback. New. Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again. In this creative memoir, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolour, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes - snapshots of people, recreated scenes and events - to describe how a ten-year-old girl grew into a teenager inside these camps. Vintage photographs reveal the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakai family's dislocation. They reveal the recollected lives of her mother and father in Japan and then America, where they began their arranged marriage and had two children.… Leer más

Univ of Utah Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. 208 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches.

Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Signed by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey alongside her chop stamp on the title page. In this creative memoir, Lily Havey (b.1932) combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II, first at the Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia and then at the Amache Relocation Center in Colorado. Tall octavo: xiv, 208 p. Original white cloth binding, with black titles. The bottom corners are lightly bumped; else fine in a fine dust jacket.