Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood

by George Uba

"I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life...had their start much sooner."

In Water Thicker Than Blood, poet and professor George Uba traces his life as a Japanese American born in the late 1940s, a period of insidious anti-Japanese racism. His beautiful, impressionist memoir chronicles how he, like many Sansei (and Nisei) across the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439922586
• ISBN13: 9781439922583
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"