"Littlefield has a gift for pacing.page-turning action and evocative, sensual, harrowing descriptions." -Publishers Weekly. It is a moving chronicle of injustice, triumph and the unspeakable acts we commit in the name of love. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever.and spur her to sins of her own.īestselling author Sophie Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen innocence and survival that echoes through generations, reverberating between mothers and daughters. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.īuffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp.
Buffeted by blistering heat In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice. Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans and taken to the Manzanar prison camp. In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice. Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor.
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