Dust of Eden - by Mariko Nagai (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>What do you do when your country goes to war--and everyone thinks you're the enemy?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>We lived under a sky so blue in Idaho right near the towns of Hunt and Eden but we were not welcomed there. In early 1942, thirteen-year-old Mina Masako Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are sent from their home in Seattle to an internment camp in Idaho. What do you do when your home country treats you like an enemy? This memorable and powerful novel in verse, written by award-winning author Mariko Nagai, explores the nature of fear, the value of acceptance, and the beauty of life. As thought-provoking as it is uplifting, Dust of Eden is told with an honesty that is both heart-wrenching and inspirational.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Nagai does a wonderful job examining what it means to Mina and her family members to be American while not being treated as true citizens.--<em>School Library Journal</em></p><br><br><p>Nagai's writing is spare and rhythmic--it's real poetry.--<em>The Horn Book Magazine</em></p><br><br><p>This is an honest and thoughtful exploration of a complicated chapter in American history, and the book's strong narrative voice and solid imagery will help contemporary readers understand those complexities.--<em>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</em></p><br><br><p>This vividly wrought story of displacement, told from Mina's first-person perspective, begins as it did for so many Japanese-Americans: with the bombs dropping on Pearl Harbor...An engaging novel-in-poems that imagines one earnest, impassioned teenage girl's experience of the Japanese-American internment.--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><br><br><p><strong>CCBC Choices 2015<br /> One of 25 of the best new middle grade novels, The Christian Science Monitor<br /> Best Older Fiction of 2014, Chicago Public Library<br /> 2016 Arnold Adoff New Voices Poetry Award, Honor Book</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mariko Nagai</b> was born in Tokyo and raised in Belgium and the United States, where she graduated from NYU's creative writing program. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her poetry and short stories, including the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry. She teaches creative writing at Temple University in Japan. This is her first book for children.
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