As a fan of family sagas and historical fiction, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so well-documented, yet read like a novel with such rich prose and poignant detail. Pam Rotner Sakamoto is a gifted writer, and her love for the characters shines through every passage. Her depiction of a painful chapter in American and Japanese history allows us to reach the other side, together with Harry and his family, with a sense of reconciliation and a deeper understanding of war's tragic toll on humanity.