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I've been wanting to read this for a while, and now it's quite timely with all the hatred directed towards Asian-Americans - here is a story about what happens when the government sanctions such hatred. It's not a story we learn about in school but it is told very well here, both the personal story and the historical context.

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emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

very informative, personally i didn't know at all about the sufferance endured by the JP people in the USA . tho it's no surprise the USA has a dirty history and still do t this day
the story was told beautifully i finished in one settings
i was surprised by the stand of the author and how he believed in a "free democratic" country but as the pages folded i kinda of understand his point and respect it. i saw resistance from another light

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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5.0

A terrific graphic novel that everyone should read.

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5.0

As a Japanese Canadian whose own family went through internment during WWII, this graphic novel hit close to home for me. It is not something my family likes to talk about and I've had to do my own research because we never really learned about this in school; in our history books it was only ever a paragraph. Takei and crew has crafted a deeply personal, emotional, and informative graphic novel that had me chuckling, crying, and outraged all out the same time. I learned so much more about the American Japanese internment then I'd known before. As a teacher this book will definitely become a part of my reading list and I think it is an important book every student should read.

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5.0

It's a fast read but it's a hard-hitting one. George Takei of Star Trek fame was, as a child, imprisoned along with 120k other Japanese and Japanese-American people in horrific internment camps. This book contains his memories of those years and a look at how they affected his life from then on.

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