Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

I read this book when it was first published. Will be ordering a copy for a neighbor who has never heard of the internment of Japanese Americans. I would have been shocked by that except for the fact that I learned about this disgraceful episode in our country's history only as an adult, long after my years in our educational system.

How sad it is to read the one and two star reviews of this small, thought- provoking, and untilmately inspiring book. The negative reviews are a reflection of our young people's failure to learn from our country's history and their own shallow character, enabled by parental acceptance of their demands that everything exist only for their entertainment. I am shocked by these young readers' self-absorbtion and lack of basic human empathy. Where is their outrage at the injustice of Executive Order 9066? How frustrating for the teacher who tried to teach them the folly of not learning from history. Saddest of all is the review by the mother who complains that the book bored her child. Heaven forbid that the kid should actually learn something! But then, the mother is obviously as ignorant of these events as her daughter. If only she had bothered to read the book herself. Perhaps then she would have been less upset that her child was "bored" and more concerned by her child's failure to understand and appreciate the book's significance.

I read this book back in 2000 and i loved it. I recently read it again in two days. There was no need to seclude the Japanese-Americans just because the emperor of Japan gave orders to bomb Pearl Harbor. The Japanese came to America to have a better life but ended up being discriminated against. I am so glad Mrs. Houston wrote this book. She told her story in a very mature, sophisticated manner. I loved how she captured evry detail of Manzanar from the barracks, to the people, the land, etc.

I needed the book for a class, and so thought it'd be a drag. It turned out to be a great read, and I'd definitely recommend to anyone else.

I bought this book for my sister so I don't know how it is but it came in good condition it took a long time to arrive though alot longer than I thought we went to the beach and back before the book got here

The book was very well written and you could actually put yourself in some of the incidents that happened through her life. It is very hard to belief that this discrimination happened in our country less that 75 years ago. Great read.