cans during and after World War II. In addition, this novel explores the odyssey of Ichiro, a first generation American-born Japanese-American, who spent time in prison because he refused to join the army in order to escape the internment camps where his family and himself had been placed. He answered no to two incriminating and persecuting questions and his consequence was prison for two years. The novel examines Ichiro's quest for his identity- American or Japanese. It picks up with the release of Ichiro from prison and his return to his disinterred family and home in Seattle. America took actions that obliterate him as well as other Japanese-Americans of their identity. During this time the powers that were, decided
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