Author: Vickie Hall
Release Date: June 2013
Genre: Historical
The thing I love most about books is that they can take you to a different time and a different place. And this book does just that in such a heart-wrenching, yet most amazingly wonderful way.
So beautifully written you will relive the time and the place.You will cry for the people and wonder how this could have ever happened.
You will embrace their journey and make it your own.
And in the end you will pray that something like this will never happen again.
Kenji and Aiko Onishi are living in California when Pearl Harbor is bombed.
Because they are of Japanese descent they are ripped from their home and placed in an internment camp.
Life will never be the same.
Based on true and tragic events during WW II!
This book will touch your heart!
Excerpt from the book:
“Mama, what’s wrong?”
“Come with me,” she ordered. “Hurry.”
Meri pulled hard against her mother’s tightened grasp. “Mama, what’s happened? Where are we going?”
“You see,” she said, breathless with her quickened steps. She made a beeline to the telephone pole by the post office. Meri followed, a look of dread splashed across her face as they came to a stop in front of the sign. “Tell me what say,” she said, pointing.
Meri cradled her books in her arm and stared up at the sign. She began to read and her eyes widened. “Mama,” she gasped, “we’re being evacuated!”
Aiko’s stone-like face never flinched as she absorbed the news. “What else it say?”
Meri spun toward her mother. “Where are they sending us? What’s going to happen to us?”
Aiko lifted her chin toward the sign. “Read more.”
Meri blinked back tears and turned to face the sign. “A responsible member of the family must report tomorrow to the Civil Control Station for further instructions between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.”
Aiko motioned to Meri’s books. “Write down what it say.”
“Mama—”
Aiko touched her daughter’s arm. “We be fine,” she said, adding a soft smile. “Write down.”
Meri’s hands were shaking as she took out a pencil and opened her notebook. She wrote down all of the instructions posted on the sign in careful detail. When she had finished, she looked at her mother with beseeching eyes. “Oh, Mama . . . this is horrible. It’s not fair!” Meri exclaimed, coming alongside her mother. “It’s just not fair!”
Aiko could see the desperation in her daughter’s expression and brushed Meri’s cheek with the back of her fingers. “Meri, fallen blossom cannot return to branch. We pick up pieces and wait for new blossom.”
Tour GIVEAWAY
$25 Amazon OR PayPal
ends 8/11
About the Author
Vickie is also a musician and composer. She has been writing music since she was 13 years old. Her music has been recorded by the Westminster College Women's Choir.
(A digital review copy was provided for this review. However, all reviews are of my own opinion :)
You are so very welcome!
ReplyDeleteThis is an AMAZING book!
Thanks for the comment!
Come see me again :)