Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation, Silence, Shame, and the Resilience of a Family Farm

di David Mas Masumoto (Autore)

Patricia Miye Wakida (Illustratore)

Red Hen Press, 2023

I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive? Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family to forge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven to explore my identity and the meaning of family-especially as farmers tied to the land. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the earth that we work and a sense of place that defines us.

• Autore: David Mas Masumoto
• Illustratore: Patricia Miye Wakida
• Editore: Red Hen Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 232 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781636280776

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