![]() ![]() There's a lot of waiting, during which time Jeanne and her family (minus her father, who's already been taken away by the feds) move from their Santa Monica home to her brother's place in Long Beach (where there are more Japanese people).ĭuring this whole period, Jeanne's just starting to associate with other Japanese-Americans. Only America doesn't quite know what to do with the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast (the region nearest Pearl Harbor), so the government decides to evacuate them (you know, from their homes and communities, and against their will) to internment camps, though the whole process doesn't happen right away. ![]() Jeanne recalls her father and brothers setting out in their fishing boats, only to return almost immediately because they've been instructed to do so-America's officially at war with Japan. The book opens with a memory of the day Pearl Harbor gets hit by the Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar Summary Just Waiting ![]()
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