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Once we have a Friday picked, we will select a place to meet and let everyone know. We will most likely meet at Debbie, Laura or Melissa's house which are all very close to McFarland.
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Description of Silver Like Dust from Amazon:
The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey throughone of the most shameful chapters in American history.
Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listeningto her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant'sgrandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage,something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up inrural Pennsylvania,all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisineand her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.
But there was one part of Obaachan’s life that had fascinated and hauntedKimi ever since the age of eleven—her gentle yet proud Obaachan had once been aprisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years ofher life. Obaachan never spoke of those years, and Kimi’s own mother only spokeof it in whispers. It was a source of haji, or shame. But what hadreally happened to Obaachan, then a young woman, and the thousands of othermen, women, and children like her?
Obaachan would meet her husband in the camps and watch her mother die there,too. From the turmoil, racism, and paranoia that sprang up after the bombing ofPearl Harbor and the terrifying train ride to Heart Mountain,to the false promise of V-J Day, Silver Like Dust captures a vitalchapter of the Japanese American experience through the journey of oneremarkable woman.
Her story is one of thousands, yet is a powerful testament to the enduringbonds of family and an unusual look at the American dream.
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