A review by jwinchell
This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda

4.0

This is really an amazing feat- managing to connect Japanese internment in the US with the Holocaust. Fukuda does it seamlessly, weaving together French Jewish Charlie with west coast Japanese American Alex. There are 3 parts, which makes this an ambitious novel and not for the faint of heart. Life in Bainbridge Island as Pearl Harbor happens and the beginning of the pen pal relationship that starts when they are in elementary school. Part two is in Manzanar, the internment camp. The uprising that really happened there is depicted. Part three is war, when Alex enlists and fights in Italy and Germany and liberates Dachau. The 442nd Japanese American regiment is real and they really did that and free a regiment of Texans held by the Nazis. The yearning Alex and Charlie feel for each other is real and holds the story together. For WW II aficionados, this book really delivers. Beautiful if a bit long.