Naomi Hirahara: Evergreen
Japantown #2
The follow up to Hirahara’s spectacular Clark and Division finds the Ito family, released from detention camp and the follow up resettlement in Chicago, back in 1946 Los Angeles. After the Japanese were sent to camps, their homes and businesses were taken over, and they’ve returned to try and build up their lives again. Our heroine, Aki, works as a nurse’s aide and is waiting for her husband Art to return from the war. She and her parents have found a small home to rent which the two couples will share.