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Sleeping on Potatoes
Sleeping on Potatoes
Author: Carl Nomura
Kaworu (Carl) Nomura’s autobiography is an unforgettable story of growing up in the United States as a Japanese-American. From a fishing cannery in Long Beach, CA in the twenties to the Great Depression in the thirties, from high school’s Pomp and Circumstance to Manzanar’s Internment Center during WWII, and from the University of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780970194732
ISBN-10: 0970194730
Publication Date: 9/2003
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Erasmus Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 2
Nomura's stories about his cruel, abusive father, surviving the Depression era, the years he spent in a Japanese-American relocation camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the discrimination he faced trying to get into college are heart-wrenching. The historical aspects of those stories are very interesting.

Despite the hardships of his growing up years, Nomura writes about all the joy his numerous friends, loving family, and colleagues have brought into his life.

He intentionally writes in a simplistic style that even a young adult could enjoy.
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