Aru nikkeijin no shōzo =

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Nina Revoyr: Aru nikkeijin no shōzo = (Japanese language, 2005, Fusōsha)

606 pages

Japanese language

Published 2005 by Fusōsha.

ISBN:
978-4-594-05008-5
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OCLC Number:
70119022

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Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that 4 black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965—and that the murders were never solved or reported.

Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys' deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family's history—and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; …

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Subjects

  • Japanese American families -- Fiction.
  • African American teenage boys -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
  • Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 -- Fiction.
  • Japanese American women -- Fiction.
  • Race relations -- Fiction.
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.