Faiq Ramli itibaren Alvarado, TX , USA

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This is a heartwarming - and heartbreaking - story which focusses on a Chinese boy(Henry Lee) and a Japanese girl(Keiko Osabe) whose parents send them to an all-Caucasian Seattle prep school in 1942, because they want their children to grow up American. They become close, depending on each other's friendship to get them through the isolation and bigotry of life at their school. Awkwardly for them, Henry's father's is a virulent Chinese patriot and hates all Japanese, since the Japanese army invaded his country and killed several members of his family. This is 1942, after all. The infamous American internment of its Japanese citizens occurs(the overtones of Nazi Germany are startling, especially as told through the eyes of a 12 year old boy)and the two are separated... There is a older black jazz saxaphone player named Sheldon who is Henry's "big brother" surrogate and voice of street wisdom. The action moves back and forth between "the war years" and 1986, when Henry Lee is 56, looking back. Hence our ability to get to know his son, Marty, who could not have been born to a 12 year old in 1942. I won't throw up a spoiler flare except to say that Marty is an important character for several reasons. Jamie Ford's creation of character - Henry, Keiko, and Sheldon, Henry's parents and son, even the minor characters of Chaz the bully and Mrs. Beatty, the crusty lunch lady about whom Henry decides "there's more than meets the eye" - is wonderful, unpredictable, and emotionally true. He weaves a compelling story through these engaging people against the backdrop of the Japanese Internment in the American Northwest during World War II. The story is moving and provocative at the same time and satisfying to a lover of historical fiction(which I am), BUT... There are historical inaccuracies and anachronisms which I mostly missed until I checked out some other people's reviews. A few I caught (rear view projection television in 1986? online support groups in 1986?); most I didn't. The practiced eye of a World War II expert apparently will note numerous inaccuracies, not the least of which is that Henry's dad wants to send him to China to finish his schooling "because it's safe now" in 1943, when apparently Southern China was still very much an active war zone at that time. See the review by John P. Jones III on Amazon for a thoughtful discussion of details which don't quite ring true. Yes, this is fiction, but it's historical fiction, and the author does say in his afterword, "Though this is a work of fiction, many of the events, particularly those dealing with the internment of Japanese Americans, did occur as described." Some would drop down to three or even two stars for this. Still, I enjoyed the book very much because of the character and plot and found the spirit of the historical backdrop to be convincing, even if the details may not always add up. I get the feeling Mr. Ford researched Seattle and the internment carefully, but maybe could have dug deeper into the details he shares about the war itself. I found it a satisfying read.

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