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This new novel by award-winning author Marnie Mueller tells the tragic and dramatic story of Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp during World War II. It is narrated from the unique insider view of Denton Jordan, a conscientious objector, and his wife Esther, who are both living and working in the camp. In this gripping tale of the disintegration of loyalty, love, and friendship, we experience a disturbing piece of American history.
Violence erupts when Camp Director Ted Andross imposes repressive and culturally insensitive measures against the Japanese American detainees. Already imprisoned Issei are asked to renounce the Emperor - their God - in order to prove their loyalty to the United States. Their children, even though they are U.S. citizens, are forced to make the agonizing choice between family and country.
The crisis pits Andross against his staff, husband against wife, and friend against friend. In the midst of this tension, Denton, a pacifist during a time when being a man meant "shouldering a gun for America," is struggling to save his disintegrating marriage with Esther, the daughter of Jewish intellectuals working to get Jews out of Europe.
The novel explores the difficulty of living up to one's own principles and the psychological impact of trauma on personal relationships - dramatizing how intense pressure can lead to anger, self-doubt, infidelity and murder.
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Concentration camp inmates, Concentration camps, Conscientious objectors, Fiction, Japanese American Internment, Japanese Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Tule Lake Relocation Center, History, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, historical, general, South america, fiction, Japanese americans, fictionShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The climate of the country: a novel
1999, Curbstone Press
in English
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1880684586 9781880684580
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This is a novel set in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp during WWII. It is loosely based on the experiences of the author's parents. Mueller was born in Tule Lake to a Caucasian couple who worked in the camp. Her father, a conscientious objector, set up the consumer Co-operative Store system and her mother taught in the camp school. The book is unusual within the canon of Japanese American Internment literature in that it deals directly with the day-to-day operations and the politics in the camps during the period shortly after the mandated signing of loyalty oaths by the prisoners. It is a hard look at what transpired as a result of the oaths.
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