Kiyo's Story - by Kiyo Sato (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this memoir, originally published as Dandelion Through the Crack, first generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the tribulations her family endured in America through the Great Depression and WWII. Emigrating from Japan in 1911, Sato's parents built a home and cultivated a marginal plot of land into a modest but sustaining fruit farm. One of nine children, Sato recounts days on the farm playing with her siblings and lending a hand with child-care, house cleaning and grueling farm work. Her anecdotes regarding the family's devotion to one another despite their meager lifestyle (her father mending a little brother's shoe with rubber sliced from a discarded tire) gain cumulative weight, especially when hard times turn tragic: in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the Satos find themselves swept up by U.S. authorities and shuffled through multiple Japanese internment camps, ending up in a desert facility while the farm falls to ruin.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family's struggle to endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Vividly honest, deeply moving."--Bill Hosokawa, <i>Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American<br></i><br>"It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being compared to <i>Farewell to Manzanar</i>. I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen-like austerity, highly enough. Exquisite."--Kevin Starr, <i>California</i> <i> A History<br></i><br>"Taken simply as a family chronicle, it is moving and graceful. But it is also a powerful, thought-provoking historical document."--James Fallows, <i>Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy </i> <p/><i>Kiyo's Story</i> is unforgettable.--<i>Sacramento News & Review</i> <p/>Touching . . . an important portrait of a shameful period in American history.--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kiyo Sato</b> was raised on a farm in Sacramento, California. She was attending Sacramento Junior College at the outbreak of World War II, when her parents and eight siblings were evacuated and forced into the Poston Internment Camp. Her memoirs, <i>Kiyo's Story</i> and <i>Dandelion Through the Crack</i> chronicle her family's struggle to endure these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.
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