Did you know...

... that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote a novel about her experience as a child in a Japanese internment camp, titled Farewell to Manzanar.

Jeanne tells her story about how her family was forced to the internment camp Manzanar with 10,000 other Japanese Americans in 1942 when she was 7 years old. She recreates the camp including the living conditions of the camp and the whole community that was eventually created with in the barbed wire. She explains how her large family begins to fall apart and how they all struggle to find their identity in a torn world.

Jeanne also continues her story about life after the camp and having to return to a world of hatred and discrimination and her return to the ruins of the camp many years later.