Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.

This book provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II. Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them...

"The US government claimed anyone of Japanese descent was an enemy due to the Pearl Harbor bombing. George and his family had committed no crime. They were American in every way. but because they looked like the enemy, they were forcibly removed from their home. This book is George Tekei's story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II. It's about how Daddy and Mama kept their family safe in their new "homes"...