Book description
The left-at-home residents and ranchers of Luster, Wyoming, and the Japanese-American inmates of nearby Heart Mountain Relocation Camp contend with colliding political and personal circumstances
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Why read it?
1 author picked Heart Mountain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Gretel Ehrlich’s 1988 novel puts a spin on the incarceration experience by examining it at the intersection of two worlds.
The protagonist is a Japanese American free person living near the Wyoming incarceration camp of Heart Mountain. He has never been incarcerated because he lives outside the “exclusion area.” The story looks at the camp and its injustices through the eyes of this man, who is similar to the inmates yet an outsider.
The book really captures the irony of camp life: it is at once so deeply unjust yet so dull that years seem to blend into each other.…
From Saara's list on really feeling the everyday life of the Japanese American community.
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