Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. To Hiroko, California was a different world. It was August 1941.įrom the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.Ī man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions.
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