Meissner ( As Bright as Heaven, 2018, etc.) has created a quietly devastating story that shows how fear and hatred during World War II changed (and even ended) the lives of many innocent Americans. As the war rages on, Elise never stops hoping that she and Mariko will eventually reunite even as the world crumbles around her. Elise and Mariko make big plans to move to Manhattan together when the war ends, but before that can happen, Elise’s family is sent back to Germany. People of different nationalities don’t often mix, but Elise becomes friends with Mariko, a Japanese-American teenager who lived in LA before coming to the camp with her parents and siblings. Although there are others of German descent and also some Italians, the majority of the camp’s residents are of Japanese descent. Eventually, their family is able to be together again-in a family internment camp in Texas. But then her father is arrested because the authorities think he might be a Nazi sympathizer, leaving Elise, her mother, and her brother all alone. A German-American girl becomes best friends with a Japanese-American girl in an internment camp during World War II.Įlise Sontag feels like a normal American teenager in 1943 even though her parents grew up in Germany.
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