This was an excellent book about a Japanese American family. Some of the children born in the United States, moved to Hiroshima in the 1930's during the Great Depression. The two oldest, a boy and a girl returned alone to the United States as teenagers during the late 1930's. Their younger siblings were raised in Japan. In alternating chapters, the book describes the lives of the children as they faced discrimination in 1940's Washington State, and were transported to interment camps shortly after Pearl Harbor; while their siblings grew up in an increasingly militarized Japan. One of the most touching scenes involved the inmates celebration of the 4th of July after their property and liberty were lost. The boy volunteered to join the U.S. Army as a translator. He was eventually shipped to the East, discovered a childhood bully as a captured soldier in the Imperial army, and eventually reunited with his mother and long lost siblings after the atomic bomb. I have been getting up at 5:00 a.m. just to finish it. Magnificent, and timely given our current discussions about immigration.