Book Bearings
Farewell to Manzanar
- 174 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1973
- 38 editions
Bookshop.org links may earn us a commission. It supports independent bookstores and costs you nothing.
1 About this book
Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the Manzanar internment camp due to the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
It was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 1976 starring Yuki Shimoda, Nobu McCarthy, James Saito, Pat Morita, and Mako.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a true life story and World War II history.
- Japanese Americans
- Biography
- Concentration camps
- World War II
- 1942-1945 Evacuation And Relocation
- Evacuation of civilians
- 1942-1945 Forced Removal And Internment
- Reading
2 About Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 Similar books
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- An Autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah