"Brilliant . . . Spectacular and troubling and topical . . . Filled with charged moments and observations." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "A daring book . . . A close literary kin to Richard Wright's Native Son . . . There is no other novel like it about Japanese Americans in the postwar period. . . . A cautionary tale . . . of the incarceration of immigrant families based on racial prejudice, executive privilege, and the false assertion of military necessity . . . Over a half century later, Okada's novel challenges us once again with the question of character, asking us, as individuals and as a society, what are we made of." --Karen Tei Yamashita, from the Introduction
No-No Boy tells the gripping tale of Ichiro Yamada, a young man who, like many Japanese-Americans, refuses to denounce his Japanese heritage and fight for the US Army during the Second World War. His decisions force him to spend four long years in an internment camp and then in prison. On his release, he struggles to reconcile the beliefs that led to his imprisonment with a radically changed postwar America. This is a powerful novel that raises timely questions of identity, heritage and assimilation.
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