Description
A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities-reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: David Mas Masumoto, Patricia Miye Wakida (Illustrator)
Published: 10/01/2024
Publisher: Red Hen Press
ISBN: 9781636281032
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 0.52″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W
About the Author
Masumoto, David Mas: – David Mas Masumoto is an organic farmer, author, and activist. His book Epitaph for a Peach won the Julia Child Cookbook award and was a finalist for a James Beard award. His writing has been awarded a Commonwealth Club of California silver medal and the Independent Publisher Books bronze medal. He has been honored by Rodale Institute as an “Organic Pioneer.” He has served on the boards of the James Irvine Foundation, Public Policy Institute of California, Cal Humanities, and the National Council on the Arts with nomination by President Obama. He farms with his wife Marcy and two adult children, Nikiko and Koro. They reside in a hundred-year-old farmhouse surrounded by their eighty-acre organic peach, nectarine, apricot, and raisin farm outside of Fresno, California.Wakida, Patricia Miye: – Linoleum block and letterpress artist Patricia Miye Wakida grew up in Fresno, California. In addition to maintaining her own linoleum block and letterpress studio under the wasabi press imprint, she frequently writes about Japanese American history and culture. She is a Yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American), whose parents were incarcerated as children in the Jerome (Arkansas) and Gila River (Arizona) World War II Japanese American concentration camps. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and son, cats, and chickens. Her website: www.wasabipress.com
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