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Silver like dust [electronic resource] : [one family's story of America's Japanese internment] / Kimi Cunningham Grant.

Grant, Kimi Cunningham. (Author). Zeller, Emily Woo. (Narrator). AudioGO (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary:

Kimi's Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan's (grandfather's) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather's attempts to teach her the language. But there was one part of Obaachan's life that fascinated and haunted Kimi ever since the age of eleven -- her gentle yet proud Obaachan was once a prisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years of her life. Obaachan never spoke of those years, and Kimi's own mother only spoke of it in whispers. It was a source of haji, or shame. But what really happened to Obaachan, then a young woman, and the thousands of other men, women, and children like her? Obaachan would meet her husband in the camps and watch her mother die there, too. From the turmoil, racism, and paranoia that sprang up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the terrifying train ride to Heart Mountain, to the false promise of V-J day, Silver Like Dust captures a vital chapter of the Japanese-American experience through the journey of one remarkable woman. Her story is one of thousands, yet is powerful a testament to the enduring bonds of family and an unusual look at the American dream.--Container

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  • ISBN: 9780792784739 (electronic audio bk.)
  • ISBN: 0792784731 (electronic audio bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : AudioGO, p2012, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Sound Library"--Container.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Emily Woo Zeller.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on hard copy version record.
Subject: Grant, Kimi Cunningham > Family.
Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / Military / World War II
Genre: Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.

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