{"product_id":"2940170606047","title":"No-No Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1956, \u003ci\u003eNo-No Boy\u003c\/i\u003e was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo-No Boy\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life \"no-no boys\". Yamada answered \"no\" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Ozeki writes, Ichiro's \"obsessive, tormented\" voice subverts Japanese postwar \"model-minority\" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's \"threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098441105648,"sku":"2940170606047","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170606047_p0.jpg?v=1763714128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170606047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}