The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography

About this book

Growing up in California Yoshi knew her family looked different from their neighbors. Still she felt like an American. But everything changed when America went to war against Japan. Along with all the other Japanese-Americans on the West Coast Yoshis family were rounded up and imprisoned in a crowded. badly built camp in the desert because they"looked like the enemy." Yoshiko Uchida grew up to be an award-winning author. This memoir of her childhood gives a personal account of a shameful episode in American history.