{"product_id":"desert-exile-9780295994758","title":"Desert Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Citizen *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDesert Exile\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * San Francisco Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDesert Exile\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Traise Yamamoto\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The House above Grove Street\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Being Japanese and American\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pearl Harbor\u003cbr\u003e 4. Evacuation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tanforan: A Horse Stall for Four\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tanforan: City behind Barbed Wire\u003cbr\u003e 7. Topaz: City of Dust\u003cbr\u003e 8. Topaz: Winter’s Despair\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400930238807,"sku":"9780295994758","price":22.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295994758.jpg?v=1730471972","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/desert-exile-9780295994758","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}