Farewell to Manzanar, The powerful true story of inside a Japanese American internment camp, by Jeanne Watasuki Houston & James Houston (pp 188). Due to my eldest daughter’s interest in internment camps after a visit to the Colorado History Museum, I picked this up book up. It is the story of a California camp from the perspective of 8-11 year old Jeanne Watasuki. Given the author’s age at the time of internment she was not fully aware at the time of the all the impacts on her, her family, her fellow internees, and the larger Japanese community. Like most other internees, her family lost their home, most belongings, her father’s business (including two fishing boats and gear), and their freedom. Because of the camp structure they also lost family cohesion, effects of which had lasting negative impacts. The book incorporates Jeanne’s memories, and those of family members and others familiar with internment. The author’s story is a mixture of her coming of age and her interests comparable to many girls of her age, juxtaposed with the trials of her family’s adjustment to imprisonment, racial suspicion, distrust, and living in harsh conditions. Not being terribly familiar with the details of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, this was an interesting, enlightening, and saddening read. ( )