Fox Drum Bebop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781885030177)

Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family--along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans--are packed off to a concentration camp run by the US government. The harsh and barren world of the Arizona desert where Hiroshi and his family find themselves sets sibling against sibling, parent against child and neighbor against neighbor in a complex grappling with duty and disappointment that will reverberate through the ensuing decades. Sexual initiation, kabuki tales, jazz clubs and alcoholism form the backdrop against which Hiroshi, his siblings and his parents struggle to define themselves. Whether describing Hiroshi's tumultuous postwar coming of age or excavating generational grievances exacerbated by internment, Gene Oishi gives heartbreaking and at times humorous context to the life of a family set adrift by its wartime experiences.

Author: Gene Oishi
ISBN-10: 1885030177
ISBN-13: 9781885030177
Publisher: Kaya Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2014
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/26/2015