Place for What We Lose

A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

A deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarcerationIn a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration. Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.With honesty and lyrical precision, Nimura shows how intergenerational trauma and silence are transmitted, and how confronting them can foster healing. Part memoir, part dialogue with the past, A Place for What We Lose illuminates the enduring costs of incarceration while honoring the persistence of family, memory, and story. It is a profoundly moving exploration of grief, history, and the fragile but necessary work of resilience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295754758

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Biografier inom Biografier
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Tamiko Nimura is a creative nonfiction writer, VONA fellow, and public speaker. She is coauthor of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, which was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award in 2022.

Recensioner i media

"In this gut-wrenching work of intergenerational dialogue, Nimura braids passages from her late father's unpublished memoir of growing up in California's Tule Lake Japanese-American concentration camp during WWII with her own reflections on the text. . . . [A] memorable duet."