From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace

by Mitzi Asai Loftus

Mitsuko "Mitzi" Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry--about two-thirds of them US citizens--from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. They included Mitzi and most of her family, who owned a fruit orchard in Hood River, Oregon. The Asais spent much of World War II in the camps while two of the older sons served in the Pacific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962645053
• ISBN13: 9781962645058
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"