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Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
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Description for Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BGA; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 183 x 23. Weight in Grams: 998.
Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.
In this creative memoir, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolour, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes - snapshots of people, recreated ... Read more
Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.
In this creative memoir, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolour, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes - snapshots of people, recreated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607813439
SKU
V9781607813439
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Ref
99-15
About Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
Lily Havey was born in Los Angeles. In 1942, along with 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, she was incarcerated at the Amache Relocation Center in Colorado. After World War II her family moved to Salt Lake City where she attended West High School and the University of Utah. She graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and pursued an ... Read more
Reviews for Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence
“The writing is at times highly evocative, but it is the addition of Havey's artwork that sets this work apart from and adds a new dimension to the Japanese concentration camp story. Havey includes numerous small details that make the period come alive and shed new light on the prison camp experience.” —Nancy Matsumoto, writer and contributor to Time, ... Read more