{"product_id":"9781607813439","title":"Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLily Nakai and her family lived in southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip,” she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, nightly gazing out instead at a searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.\u003cbr\u003e      In this creative memoir, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. In short vignettes snapshots of people, recreated scenes and events a ten-year-old girl develops into a teenager while confined. Vintage photographs reveal the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakais’ dislocation. The paintings and her animated writing together pull us into a turbulent era when America disgracefully incarcerated, without due process, thousands of American citizens because of their race.\u003cbr\u003e      These stories of love, loss, and discovery recall a girl balancing precariously between childhood and adolescence. In turn wrenching, funny, touching, and biting but consistently engrossing, they elucidate the daily challenges of life in the camp and the internees’ many adaptations. \u003cp\u003eWinner of the Evans Biography Award. \u003cbr\u003e Selected by the American Library Association as one the Best of the Best from University Presses.\u003cbr\u003e Finalist in the cover design category in the Southwest Book Design and Production Awards. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018447732976,"sku":"9781607813439","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607813439_p0.jpg?v=1763831262","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607813439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}