{"id":4513,"date":"2022-07-29T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T20:18:45","slug":"naomi-hirahara-joins-our-august-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/naomi-hirahara-joins-our-august-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Hirahara joins our August Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/naomi-new-headshot-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4514\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/naomi-new-headshot-sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/naomi-new-headshot-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/naomi-new-headshot-sm.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/clark-and-division.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4125\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/clark-and-division-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/clark-and-division-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/clark-and-division.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naomi Hirahara will join our book club via zoom on Sunday, August 21 at 2 p.m. when we discuss her award winning book,\u00a0<em>Clark and Division.<\/em>\u00a0 Set during WWII, it follows the travails of the Ito family who are placed in a Japanese internment camp in California and then, after two years in the camp, relocated from California to Chicago. The portrait of the family, of the time period, and of the Ito family&#8217;s circumstances are beautifully portrayed.\u00a0 All are welcome to join!\u00a0 Come with questions or come to listen.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t recommend this book more highly &#8211; it was my favorite read of 2021 and am delighted to get it into the hands of as many readers as possible.\u00a0 We do have copies available on the store page of this website, but please check out your local bookstore, your library, and find and read a copy in some form or fashion!\u00a0 Email us as store (at) auntagathas.com for the zoom link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Hirahara will join our book club via zoom on Sunday, August 21 at 2 p.m. when we discuss her award winning book,\u00a0Clark and Division.\u00a0 Set during WWII, it follows the travails of the Ito family who are placed in a Japanese internment camp in California and then, after two years in the camp, relocated &#8230; <a title=\"Naomi Hirahara joins our August Book Club\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/naomi-hirahara-joins-our-august-book-club\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Naomi Hirahara joins our August Book Club\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167,858,637,664],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-book-club","tag-clark-and-division","tag-naomi-hirahara","tag-soho-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}