Mitzi Asai's parents immigrated to the United States from Japan early in the 20th century. Her father, the central personage in this memoir, worked all sorts of manual jobs as a young man in order to buy farmland near Hood River, Oregon. He and his wife would raise a family of eight, although circumstance and the affairs of governments ensured that during the Second World War, the oldest daughter would die under American bombs in Yokohama (and her son would be "lost" to the family for some time after being kidnapped and adopted out by in-laws); two of the sons would fight in the US Army in the Pacific theater; while the rest of the family spent the war behind barbed wire on what was, for most of them, their native soil. The youngest of the eight, Mitzi Asai Loftus recounts the saga matter-of-factly, and lets events speak for themselves. Loftus self-published this 1990 memoir; to obtain a copy, write to Pigeon Point Press, Box 3636, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420, or send an e-mail to me at dloft59@earthlink.net
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The review of this Book prepared by David Loftus
