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Mariko Nagai
Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Europe and America, Mariko Nagai has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others and has won the prestigious Pushcart Prizes for both in poetry and fiction.... show more

Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Europe and America, Mariko Nagai has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others and has won the prestigious Pushcart Prizes for both in poetry and fiction. Mariko Nagai is the author of Histories of Bodies: Poems (2007), Georgic: Stories (2010), Instructions for the Living (2012), and The Promised Land:A Novel (forthcoming from Aqueous Press, 2015). Mariko Nagai is an Associate Professor at Temple University Japan.
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Manga Maniac Cafe
Manga Maniac Cafe rated it 9 years ago
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...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 10 years ago
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...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 10 years ago
“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...
Twirling Book Princess
Twirling Book Princess rated it 10 years ago
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...
The Surly Dragon
The Surly Dragon rated it 11 years ago
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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