Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941,
America entered World War II. The government also rounded up Japanese-Americans
and placed them in internment camps, taking them from their homes, businesses,
and friends. Mina doesn’t understand why
her father is sent to prison, while she has to leave behind her friends, her
cat, and her grandfather’s roses to go live in a horse stall on an old fairground
just because her parents came from Japan. What they hope will be a short stay
turns into three years of challenge, during which time her family is torn
apart, then put back together again. Told in free verse poetry, this short
novel is an emotional account of one family’s struggle to survive when their
own government turns against them.
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