Color of the Sea

[Sequoia]

by John Hamamura

From Booklist
Born in Hawaii to Japanese parents, Sam Hamada is not destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a mere plantation worker. Education, both traditional schooling and martial arts training, is Sam's ticket out, leading him to college on the mainland, where he meets Keiko, the fetching, willful daughter of Japanese immigrants. Yet while Keiko and Sam are falling in love, their adopted and native lands are preparing for war. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Keiko's family is incarcerated in internment camps while Sam is drafted into the U.S. Army, where he unwittingly plays a key role in the bombing of Hiroshima, still home to his mother and siblings. To be a Japanese American in mid-twentieth-century America was to be perceived as neither Japanese nor American, and it is this conflict that informs Hamamura's ambitious coming-of-age novel, in which the fate of two people amid the devastation of war reveals how the promises of honor and the security of love can rescue souls and restore faith.

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Sea-John-Hamamura/dp/0312340737/sr=1-1/qid=1159221566/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7760266-3089548?ie=UTF8&s=books

This is a beautifully written story. What is so strange to me about this is I watched a DVD, "Time of Fear", about the internment of American Japenese in Arkansas. Then, a few days later I'm finishing up this book and lo and behold some of the characters in the book go to the same place and go to the forest to cut trees for firewood which was mentioned in the DVD. This is a case of the left hand not knowning what the right hand was doing I guess.

[babylonsister]

1. It looks as good here as it did in

Books/Non-Fiction! :rofl:

[Sequoia]

2. Heh, heh...I deleted that one but you were quick to post

before I realized it was in the wrong forum.