A review by joyxrm1
Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara

3.0

There is a darkness to this book as the protagonist, the 70 year old Japanese-American gardner in So. California comes to terms with his past. But he bravely peels away the layers of his history revealing how it shaped his relationships and choices. There are so many sides to the story of the Japanese-American experience in WWII with Pearl Harbor, their internment in the US, those that served in the US military, those who had returned to Japan prior the war and then finally those that were there at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once again we understand that war is not simple and integrity is often times dependent on happenstance.