Carl Nomura's autobiography, Sleeping on Potatoes, begins, “I was born in a boxcar somewhere between Deer Lodge and Three Forks.” From a childhood of poverty during the Great Depression to being incarcerated into Manzanar (a Japanese Relocation Camp) during WWII, drafted into the U.S. Army and from the University of Minnesota, to Honeywell, Inc, to fatherhood -- Sleeping on Potatoes, is a wonderfully evocative account of Nomura's life and times.
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It is the story of adversity and courage, of the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions and of Dr. Nomura's rise to becoming a physicist and leader in solid-state physics.
The review of this Book prepared by Skye Wentworth