![]() Give this to your teens who like military stuff, WWII stories, and books about male friendship. But I think the preface and the author's note had some great resources and more details (including photos), and the story did a good job getting me to want to read more. Historical fiction isn't my favorite genre, partly because I'd rather just read non-fiction. For a fictional story, this book did a great job conveying day to day details not just of being imprisoned stateside, but of one way someone might face overt and pervasive racism. I recall learning about internment camps in high school, but I only remembered the broadest strokes. I bumped it up a star rating just for being the right book at the right time. It's a good choice for those reasons, but I think it's an even better choice for the depiction of racism and the darkness of what America did to it's own citizens during WWII. I particularly loved the battle details, the way deaths weren't glossed over but each loss got a moment, and the gross but realistic descriptions of stuff like trench foot. ![]() ![]() Solid writing, and a likeable main character. ![]()
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