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Setsuko's Secret - Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration (Hardcover, 1)
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Setsuko's Secret - Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration (Hardcover, 1)
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As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart
Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a
great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they
would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and
shame for their older family members, part of the generation of
Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp
in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066. Only after a serious
cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision
for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been
donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After
Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to
visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and
introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew. Navigating
the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience,
Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the
forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving
seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret
offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed
to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists
that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.
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