Sophie Liu itibaren Koyananagar, Maharashtra , India

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12/22/2024

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2018-08-17 15:41

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The remarkable thing I found within this book was that Otsuka writes as though none of it matters, as though it's all a minor inconvenience in the otherwise routine lives of a Japanese-American family: being forced to uproot themselves from all they've known and much of what they've owed, board a train, hear nothing of the whereabouts of their arrested father, and live nearly four years in the bleak desert internment camps. Not a word is mentioned about injustice or the external circumstances of this family's ordeal: but it's all there. The less and less personal emotion the artist invests into the characters and the story, the more and more--ironically--it makes you aware how just how awful this is. This particular unnamed family, whose thoughts and experiences occupy the pages of this book, was swept under the rug, much like the very topic of Japanese internment is swept under the rug in our understanding of the Second World War (ever recall spending any classtime studying how the government didn't trust their own CITIZENS with Japanese ancestry enough to let them keep their homes and jobs and friends and endure the war just like everybody else, and thought the DESERT might be a suitable enough place to put them until this little mess with Europe and Japan ended?) It's all up to you how much emotion you put into or get out of this beautiful story: Otsuka is mindful enough to leave her own presence out of everything and let you do the analyzing. She writes very much like Hemingway, with poise and attention to detail. Because of this, I didn't expect terribly much of the book, until the unnamed family finally comes home; oddly enough, the aftermath of internment was more heartbreaking and infuriating than the internment itself. At that point I felt a palpable anger--getting so angry at how baseless all the family's suffering had been, and how undeserved the prejudice against them was. I vaguely wondered whether this might turn into a tearjerker within the last few pages. Luckily, Estranged Father returns home to Wistful Mother and Cheeky Daughter and Thoughtful Son and in a very intimate closing, written almost like a letter and in his perspective, he promptly dishes out the biggest, baddest, and toughest comeback a victim could ever hope to give to his offender--in this case our Great, Honorable, Infallible, and Spotless Government. Do not be fooled by the meager size of this book: the story has a lot more to say than any first glance could give it credit for.

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