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They Called Us Enemy - Community Reviews back

by Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, George Takei, Harmony Becker
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Bookish thoughts!!!
Bookish thoughts!!! rated it 5 years ago
Summary: Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every per...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 5 years ago
I think the book did a great job of representing a lot about Japanese Internment that doesn't get covered other places. Like just how complicated it was for so many of the people incarcerated. I'd never heard a story like George Takei's mother's story. I liked the smaller beats within the story as...
TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 5 years ago
Date Published: July 16, 2019 Format: Paperback Source: Own copy Date Read: November 9, 2019 Review: A history of the Executive Order 9066 and how it affected his family and his community that was seen by a seven year old boy and then later as a teenager/young adult who had his early activism infl...
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