{"product_id":"together-in-manzanar-the-true-story-of-a-japanese-jewish-family-in-an-american-concentration-camp","title":"Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"A \u003cb\u003eWorld War II homefront action \u003c\/b\u003ethat many Americans would like to forget.\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This cinematic and propulsive family saga \u003cb\u003ecasts a riveting spotlight on an ignominious episode \u003c\/b\u003ein U.S. history.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e -- Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e She was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and the wife of a Japanese American man. On this war-torn morning, she was also a mother desperate to keep her young mixed-race son from being sent to a US concentration camp. Manzanar, near Death Valley, was one of ten detention centers where our government would eventually imprison every person of Japanese descent along the West Coast--alien and citizen, old and young, healthy and sick--or, in the words of one official, anyone with even \"one drop\" of Japanese blood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Elaine's husband Karl was already in Manzanar, but he planned to enlist as soon as the US Army would take him. The Yonedas were prominent labor and antifascist activists, and Karl was committed to fighting for what they had long cherished: equality, freedom, and democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYet when Karl went to war, their son Tommy, three years old and chronically ill, would be left alone in Manzanar--unless Elaine convinced the US government to imprison her as well. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The consequences of Elaine's choice did not end there: if she somehow found a way to force herself behind barbed wire with her husband and son, she would leave behind her white daughter from a previous marriage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTogether in Manzanar \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of these painful choices and conflicting loyalties, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the Yonedas' quest to survive with their children's lives intact and their family safe and whole.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0913705705\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780913705704\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Slater, Tracy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Chicago Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chicago Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jul 2025)","offer_id":46081051754693,"sku":"9780913705704","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780913705704.jpg?v=1776042746","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/together-in-manzanar-the-true-story-of-a-japanese-jewish-family-in-an-american-concentration-camp","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}