In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate
sacrifice
Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years
old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on
Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are
ripped from their home, rounded up—along with thousands of
other innocent Japanese-Americans—and taken to the Manzanar
prison camp.
Buffeted by blistering heat and choking
dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living
conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into
every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful,
vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her
daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final
act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever…and spur her
to sins of her own.
Bestselling author Sophie
Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen innocence and
survival that echoes through generations, reverberating
between mothers and daughters. It is a moving chronicle of
injustice, triumph and the unspeakable acts we commit in the
name of love.
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