Description
| Product ID: | 9781636280776 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Secret Harvests |
| Subtitle: | A Hidden Story of Separation, Silence, Shame, and the Resilience of a Family Farm |
| Authors: | Author: David Mas Masumoto, Patricia Miye Wakida |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Japan, California |
| Description: | A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities—reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Red Hen Press |
| Publisher Name: | Red Hen Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-01 |