Dust of Eden
by:
Mariko Nagai (author)
"We lived under a sky so blue in Idaho right near the towns of Hunt and Eden but we were not welcomed there." In early 1942, thirteen-year-old Mina Masako Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are sent from their home in Seattle to an internment camp in Idaho. What do you do when your home...
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"We lived under a sky so blue in Idaho right near the towns of Hunt and Eden but we were not welcomed there." In early 1942, thirteen-year-old Mina Masako Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are sent from their home in Seattle to an internment camp in Idaho. What do you do when your home country treats you like an enemy? This memorable and powerful novel in verse, written by award-winning author Mariko Nagai, explores the nature of fear, the value of acceptance, and the beauty of life. As thought-provoking as it is uplifting, Dust of Eden is told with an honesty that is both heart-wrenching and inspirational.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780807517390 (0807517399)
Publish date: March 1st 2014
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Pages no: 121
Edition language: English
4 starsMina's voice is appropriately confused and angry when her family is rounded up and shipped off to an internment camp for Americans of Japanese ancestry. With her life turned on end, her family and her heart broken, she has to come to terms with what it means to be an American in a country th...
Most of this book felt like prose broken up to look like poetry. I like that some of the letters and essays were presented as prose. Nick's letters were a nice touch, giving the author the ability to show what was happening outside camp as the war went on. The book reminded me a lot of the show Alle...
“The government took away our names, our houses, and most importantly, our dignity.” I liked the idea that this book was written in verse. Writing in verse in difficult for some individuals but for others it is easy as the sentence structure is emotional, it flows and its structure can be short o...
I generally don't like prose, I feel like someone just grabbed a good story, grabbed some scissors and went off to snip at random places and paste them like that. It felt unhinged. Still this book was good, since it also had some normal story telling. This book is about a dark period in the histor...
Received this from NetGalley for review. Synopsis: (from Amazon) "We lived under a sky so blue in Idaho right near the towns of Hunt and Eden but we were not welcomed there." In early 1942, thirteen-year-old Mina Masako Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are sent from their home in Seattle...
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