Those Who Helped Us

Closed, opens tomorrow 11amIndependent shop in Capitol HillDirections

Available from Kobo Shop & Gallery when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

By Ken Mochizuki and Kiku Hughes Basketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Through her eyes, we watch as her family is forced from their home and subjected to indiscriminate racism as they are shipped off to the concentration camp called Minidoka in Idaho. But Sumiko and her 17-year-old sister Yuri also see acts of charity and solidarity from their non-Japanese neighbors and friends in the Seattle area that m