Beginning with a foreword and a time line, Farewell to Manzanar contains an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's wartime incarceration at Manzanar, a Japanese-American internment camp. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, in Long Beach, California, the family—consisting of both parents, Jeanne's four brothers and five sisters, and Granny—are startled by news that Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.... More
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