Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (Bound for Schools & Libraries)

Description: For use in schools and libraries only. The classic memoir of a young Japanese American internee at Manzanar during World War Two.The American-born author describes her family's experience and impressions when they were forced to relocate to a camp for the Japanese in Owens Valley, California, during World War II.

Review Quotes: "A poignant memoir from a Japanese American. . . . Told without bitterness, her story reflects the triumph of the human spirit during an extraordinary episode in American history."
--Library Journal

"[Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston] describes vividly the life in the camp and the humiliations suffered by the detainees... A sober and moving personal account."
--Publishers Weekly

"[This] book provides an often vivid, impressionistic picture of how the forced isolation affected the internees. All in all, a dramatic, telling account of one of the most reprehensible events in the history of America's treatment of its minorities."
--New York Times

"A classic."
--Los Angeles Times