The story then shifts into its second part, following her family when they resettled in California after the war ended. Jeanne was seven when her family went into Manzanar and eleven when they were released. From 1942 until 1945, the Wakatsukis were confined in Manzanar, an internment camp in Owens Valley, California. Unfolding in three parts, this memoir recounts the Wakatsuki's experiences of living in Southern California during and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Arguments between the highly Americanized Jeanne and her more traditional Japanese father Ko stand alongside Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor-the event that drew the United States into World War II-and the internment of over one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans. The memoir presents intimate family moments as well as broader social events. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's first-person account of her family's experiences recalls an important episode in both the Wakatsuki's history and the nation's history. government-ordered internment during World War II had on Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens. Published in 1973, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment depicts the profound impact that U.S.
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