Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sensitive, readable account that captures with insight and human warmth the feel of what it was like to be sent by one’s own government into exile in the wilderness. It is a work worthy of an unforgettable experience."
* Pacific Citizen *
"In Desert Exile the happy life of a Japanese American family before [being removed to a] concentration camp makes their surrealist nightmare experience after December 7, 1941, all the more inexplicable and horrifying."
* San Francisco Review of Books *
"Desert Exile is a beautifully written personal history. . . . Uchida’s intention was to illuminate the Issei and Nisei internment experience on a personal level for the benefit of later generations. She has succeeded."
* Western Historical Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Traise Yamamoto
1. The House above Grove Street
2. On Being Japanese and American
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Evacuation
5. Tanforan: A Horse Stall for Four
6. Tanforan: City behind Barbed Wire
7. Topaz: City of Dust
8. Topaz: Winter’s Despair
Epilogue
