Japanese Roses A Novel of the Japanese American Internment edition by Theresa Lorella Literature Fiction eBooks
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December 7, 1941 The Miramoto family’s second generation is torn apart, separated in the United States and Japan. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, their lives would change forever.
Kimiko Miramoto must find a way to survive alone in Japan, the enemy’s country, without being a traitor to her own.
In America, Maggie, Akio, and Akio's Caucasian wife, Rose Marie, are labeled enemies of the United States. Taken from their homes, imprisoned, and separated in different internment camps, their hopes, dreams, and loyalty to their beloved country are put to the ultimate test.
Japanese Roses tells the story of one Japanese-American family’s incredible struggle to survive, caught in the tides of World War II and conflicted by national loyalty, forced to endure unspeakable betrayal and injustice.
Spanning the years of the war for the Pacific, Japanese Roses tells the story not only of one family, but of the struggles of all Japanese Americans during a time when they were labeled the enemy both in their own country and the country of their parents. Alternating between the eyes of Maggie, Rose Marie, and Kimiko, the story moves from the streets of Seattle as the bombs are dropped in Pearl Harbor, to the prison camps that lined America's West Coast, to the devastation of Hiroshima as the war drew to a close.
While all three women are separated by the war, they share one goal They want to go home. But will their homes even exist in the aftermath of the of the war? And will they all reach that place once the last bombs are dropped?
Japanese Roses A Novel of the Japanese American Internment edition by Theresa Lorella Literature Fiction eBooks
It never ceases to amaze me how cruel and ignorant mankind can be. This story of these Japanese/American citizens imprisoned by their own country( America) at the onset of WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor is a prime example.Fear is such a motivator, and I believe the cause of the creation of 'internment' camps. Whether this was a good decision or a bad one, I leave up to the individual.
If you shed tears as I did, you might examine why. Is it shame or maybe it's compassion? I hope the answer is compassion. War is a terrible thing with many residual affects causing suffering to all that is touched by it.
One fact that really surprised me is that the U.S. government actually allowed these Japanese/American citizens to leave the camps in order to join our armed forces and fight for the same government that imprisoned them. Does that sound crazy to you? Sure it does. War brings on insanity..
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Japanese Roses A Novel of the Japanese American Internment edition by Theresa Lorella Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It is hard to image different times & places in a way that connects more than just our "knowledge base" if we limit ourselves only the study of history & culture. Distorted and/or books written without fair research twist our knowledge & understandings; however when an author does great research like Theresa Lorella has for this novel it expands our minds to consider how people, places & events shape us all for generations to come. Even if the book had not been written about a time in history that actually happened it is a good story from beginning to end. Well worth the read.
The ending for story was quite nicely rounded off but it stills has the reader begging to find out how the characters coped with their livelihood beyond the years after the war. I congratulate the author for writing about an event in history that is quite often overlooked. I found it very enlightening to be be able to step into the Japanese American's shoes during the turbulent war period. Each character was sensitively developed and the storyline interesting with a few twists. My only advice to the author is that she engage a good editor to make sure no words are omitted and is always grammatically accurate. The lack of careful editing did pull down the quality of the book from outstanding to only excellent.
Captivating journey into the WWII lives of Japanese Americans, their parents and children forced by Presidential Executive Order to leave their homes and be held in internment camps complete with barbed wire fencing and armed guards. You see this unfold through the eyes of 3 families, including a caucasian spouse of a Japanese American man who had the choice of staying with her husband and 3 year old daughter or not going but her daughter had to go. The novel is based on the day to day experiences of real internee and brings to life the times and the dark circumstances of the Japanese "removal" from the west coast. It highlights the endurance, valor and quiet acceptance of the families through 3 long years and their return home.
I had heard stories of the WWII Japanese internment camps but I had never heard the story from so many different perspectives. I didn't know what Japanese Americans who were stuck in Japan had to experience. I didn't know much about the conditions of the different camps or how different they were from each other or how family members could be split up and separated into different camps. I heard about the young men who volunteered to become part of a Japanese fighting unit and the politics in the camps about joining the "war effort". I learned about the differences between 1st and 2nd generation family members.
This is a complex and fascinating read which leaves you with a multi faceted picture of this period of history.
We can't forget what happened during WWII. Sadly the were so many atrocities that happened. I gave this book four stars because of several grammatical errors. They aren't so aggregous that it took a lot away from the story; you just had to read the sentence a time or two to figure out what they meant. I'm so glad that this story has been told. We can never forget what happened and we can never let it happen again!
I have extensively researched this era in American history and Lorella nails the injustice, brutality, confusion and contradiction with wonderful attention to detail in this epic book. My husband's mother and her family members were held in Poston, his mother later marrying a Caucasian. My father served in the Army Air Corps in Okinawa and later with occupying forces in Tokyo. So many things in the book spoke to the experiences of my family.
This sweeping novel covers so many pivotal parts of the Japanese American story without venturing into cliché. I loved this book and hope it finds a wider audience. (And a film deal!)
This was an absolutely AMAZING historical fiction novel! Theresa Lorella clearly did a lot of research into the time period and worked the story around it beautifully. This is one of those books that not only got me interested in researching more about the history of Japanese internment in the USA, but it also got me thinking about the moral issues behind the time. (And as a woman in an interracial marriage myself, it REALLY got me thinking about how hard it would have been to deal with the issue of having your spouse go into internment.) The characters were beautifully written and gorgeously developed. It wasn't at all predictable, either. I cannot tell you how many times I laughed and cried (even SOBBED) throughout this book. I would go as far as saying that this is my new favourite book. If you're after a truly beautiful historical fiction novel, I cannot recommend this book enough! It was truly a pleasure to read.
It never ceases to amaze me how cruel and ignorant mankind can be. This story of these Japanese/American citizens imprisoned by their own country( America) at the onset of WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor is a prime example.
Fear is such a motivator, and I believe the cause of the creation of 'internment' camps. Whether this was a good decision or a bad one, I leave up to the individual.
If you shed tears as I did, you might examine why. Is it shame or maybe it's compassion? I hope the answer is compassion. War is a terrible thing with many residual affects causing suffering to all that is touched by it.
One fact that really surprised me is that the U.S. government actually allowed these Japanese/American citizens to leave the camps in order to join our armed forces and fight for the same government that imprisoned them. Does that sound crazy to you? Sure it does. War brings on insanity..
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