Samira Ahmed's Internment was our Unabridged Buddy Read for March and Book Club Pick for April. Our episode releases this Wednesday, April 1. In the novel, the protagonist and her parents are taken--in the near future--to an internment camp for Muslim citizens of the United States that is located near Manzanar. Frequently, Ahmed references WW II internment camps like Manzanar as historical context for her novel.
Here are other sources--some own voices and some not--that provide perspectives on the internment camps.
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Editors Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro’s
- recommended by @definitelyra
David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar
Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine
George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy - Jen's review
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Wow this is amazing.
Wow! This is amazing. Nice job!
Thanks for this! I read Back in middle school I read a bunch of WWII books.