What joy that the book of Julie Otsuka. Its collective narrative, simple but poignant, imbued as much sadness, resignation and tremendous resilience, is poignant and unforgettable. Throes of the long crossing of the Pacific in "immigrant" class, route to future often brutal and always rough husbands, the deportation of citizens of Japanese ancestry by the Americans after Pearl Harbor, and the rapid oblivion thereof by former neighbors, clients, classmates American "strain" (so to speak). Seemed particularly affecting the chapter where the ladies but note with sorrow the gradual acculturation resignation of their children, whether first class or good for nothing. A book that brand.
