Red Kimono

Jan Morrill was born and (mostly) raised in California. Her mother, a Buddhist Japanese American, was an internee during World War II. Her father, a Southern Baptist redhead of Irish descent, retired from the Air Force. Many of Jan’s stories reflect the joys and challenges of growing up in a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-political family.

Morrill deftly exploits … the competing themes of race, grief, love and betrayal in a compelling portrait of the Japanese experience at the height of America’s ‘Greatest Generation.’" - Shelf Awareness"This story of a Japanese American family uprooted and forced to live in a bleak World War II internment camp gives human faces to one of the shabbiest chapters in U.S. history. Told from the viewpoint of an engaging Japanese American girl, The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy and pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism. The Red Kimono touches my heart." - Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of Tallgrass and True Sisters"The attack on Pearl Harbor sets in motion this incredible story of a race of people betrayed by their country. Only a writer with Morrill’s talent could tell it with so much compassion and honesty. You won’t soon forget The Red Kimono." - Velda Brotherton, author of The Boston Mountains: Lost in the Ozarks