Displacement

It was interesting to read two books focusing on the Japanese internment at the same time. They were very different from each other, this one being more of a novel than a history text. What I liked most about this book was how Kiku realizes the reason why she doesn't know how to read or speak Japanese or has participated in Japanese culture was because of the distance her grandmother had put between her family and those things due to being in the camps and Kiku's mother continued the distance herself. You can clearly see the ripple effect the camps had on Issei and Nissei in America. It was strangely, something I never considered when I wondered why my Bachan spoke Japanese to others her age, but never really to my mom and her siblings or us. Just another thing to be sad about and work to change.