When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie OtsukaISBN: 9780375414299
Publication Date: 2002-09-10
January 4, 2024
Mary Ellen 145 p.
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert.