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Title:
Secret harvests : a hidden story of separation and the resilience of a family farm
Summary:
I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive? Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family to forge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven to explore my identity and the meaning of family—especially as farmers tied to the land. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the earth that we work and a sense of place that defines us. -- Amazon.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Author(s):
Publisher:
Red Hen Press,
Publication Date:
2023
ISBN:
9781636280776

9781636281032
Publication Information:
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2023]

©2023
Call Number:
305.895 MASUMOTO
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