After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned.

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A sensitive, readable account that captures with insight and human warmth the feel of what it was like to be sent by one's own government into exile in the wilderness. It is a work worthy of an unforgettable experience.

* Pacific Citizen *

In Desert Exile the happy life of a Japanese American family before [being removed to a] concentration camp makes their surrealist nightmare experience after December 7, 1941, all the more inexplicable and horrifying.

* San Francisco Review of Books *

Desert Exile is a beautifully written personal history. . . . Uchida's intention was to illuminate the Issei and Nisei internment experience on a personal level for the benefit of later generations. She has succeeded.

* Western Historical Quarterly *

About Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (1921-92) was born in Berkeley, California, and was in her senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, when Japanese Americans on the West Coast were rounded up and interned. Traise Yamamoto is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body.

Introduction by Traise Yamamoto

1. The House above Grove Street
2. On Being Japanese and American
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Evacuation
5. Tanforan: A Horse Stall for Four
6. Tanforan: City behind Barbed Wire
7. Topaz: City of Dust
8. Topaz: Winter's Despair

Epilogue

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CIN0295994754G

ISBN 13

9780295994758

ISBN 10

0295994754

Title

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida

Author

Yoshiko Uchida

Series

Classics of Asian American Literature

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Year published

20150401

Number of pages

184

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