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

by David Mas Masumoto

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636280773
• ISBN13: 9781636280776
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"