I am always going to keep hammering home the point that if we don’t know our own history, we are going to repeat it, especially now when our country seems to be determined to undercut civil liberties of its own citizens. Review: Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this graphic novel! Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself “stuck” back in time. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an eARC from NetGalley.īook Description: A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Publishing Info: First Second Books, August 2020

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