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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
Takei has spoken publicly about his childhood experiences in incarceration camps during WWII, and this graphic memoir tells that story again with a compelling blend of nostalgia and outrage. He was very young when he and his family were forced out of their California home and sent to Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, so some of his memories of that time are touched with gentle affection, though that fondness is short-lived.
As he grows older and they're relocated to a camp with harsher conditions, it seems less like an adventure and more like the atrocity it truly is. Takei, together with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, interweaves scenes of his adult realizations and reflections, as well as key speeches and historical events of the period, among the accounts of his childhood, which is very effective at providing context for those memories.
Book Discussions will be held on Saturday, May 30, at 11am at the Sequim Library and 2pm at the Port Angeles Main Library. Everyone is welcome!
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This event is part of the One Book, One Coast program series and community book club.
One Book, One Coast brings together library systems across California, Washington State, and Oregon for a shared community reading program that celebrates literacy, learning, community, and civil discourse. All participating libraries will read and discuss They Called Us Enemy by George Takei.
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EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Reading & Writing |
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