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Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence

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Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

By: Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
Narrated by: Kay Webster
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Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age 10, after believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip”, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, nightly gazing out instead at a searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.

In this creative memoir, Lily Havey combines uses storytelling to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. In short vignettes snapshots of people, recreated scenes, and events, a 10-year-old girl develops into a teenager while confined. Havey reveals the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakais’ dislocation. Her animated writing pulls us into a turbulent era when America disgracefully incarcerated, without due process, thousands of American citizens because of their race.

These stories of love, loss, and discovery recall a girl balancing precariously between childhood and adolescence. In turn wrenching, funny, touching, and biting but consistently engrossing, they elucidate the daily challenges of life in the camp and the internees’ many adaptations.

©2014 University of Utah Press (P)2021 University of Utah Press
Asian American Studies Military State & Local United States Outdoor Funny War

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Winner of the Evans Biography Award, 2014

Selected by the American Library Association as one the Best of the Best from University Presses.

Finalist in the cover design category in the Southwest Book Design and Production Awards.

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