Book description
Mitsuko "Mitzi" Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry-about two-thirds of them US citizens-from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. They included Mitzi and most of her family, who…
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1 author picked From Thorns to Blossoms as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The author's courage and honesty in relating this difficult time in U.S. history and how it affected her, her family and the Japanese American Community. She never succumbs to the hatred that is directed at her.
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