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Another historical fiction that took me completely by surprise! Set in a time that I feel doesn't get too much press - the time after the attack on Pearl Harbor and about a group of people that felt discrimination but it isn't always publicized - the Japanese community. I was familiar with the the attack itself and what became after it, but only in a general history sense, definitely not the detail that is told through this interracial couple who defeat the odds.
Another historical fiction that took me completely by surprise! Set in a time that I feel doesn't get too much press - the time after the attack on Pearl Harbor and about a group of people that felt discrimination but it isn't always publicized - the Japanese community. I was familiar with the the attack itself and what became after it, but only in a general history sense, definitely not the detail that is told through this interracial couple who defeat the odds.
I knew a man whose father was a Japanese interpreter during WWII, he would not allow his family to speak Japanese after the war. Book was well researched and well written, 400 pgs read through smoothly. McMorris's characterizations are well written. The Japanese mother reminded me of the Japanese women who I met in Hawaii, they would have immigrated during the same time period. Very good insights into the families surviving during wartime. This is the third book which I have read by McMorris and I hope to see more written by her.
