Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Slater, Tracy
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Slater, Tracy

Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

"A World War II homefront action that many Americans would like to forget." -- Kirkus Reviews "This...
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Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Slater, Tracy

Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

$45.42
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Slater, Tracy

Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

$45.42
Author: Tracy Slater
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"A World War II homefront action that many Americans would like to forget." -- Kirkus Reviews

"This cinematic and propulsive family saga casts a riveting spotlight on an ignominious episode in U.S. history." -- Publishers Weekly

On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter.

She was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and the wife of a Japanese American man. On this war-torn morning, she was also a mother desperate to keep her young mixed-race son from being sent to a US concentration camp. Manzanar, near Death Valley, was one of ten detention centers where our government would eventually imprison every person of Japanese descent along the West Coast--alien and citizen, old and young, healthy and sick--or, in the words of one official, anyone with even "one drop" of Japanese blood.

Elaine's husband Karl was already in Manzanar, but he planned to enlist as soon as the US Army would take him. The Yonedas were prominent labor and antifascist activists, and Karl was committed to fighting for what they had long cherished: equality, freedom, and democracy.

Yet when Karl went to war, their son Tommy, three years old and chronically ill, would be left alone in Manzanar--unless Elaine convinced the US government to imprison her as well.

The consequences of Elaine's choice did not end there: if she somehow found a way to force herself behind barbed wire with her husband and son, she would leave behind her white daughter from a previous marriage.

Together in Manzanar tells the story of these painful choices and conflicting loyalties, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the Yonedas' quest to survive with their children's lives intact and their family safe and whole.



Author: Tracy Slater
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 07/08/2025
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780913705704


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2025
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2025

About the Author
Tracy Slater is a Jewish American writer from Boston, based in her husband's country of Japan. Her first book, the mixed-marriage memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and one of PopSugar's best books of 2015. Slater has published work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time magazine's Made by History, and more. She taught writing for over ten years in Boston-area universities and in men's and women's prisons throughout Massachusetts. She is the recipient of PEN New England's Friend to Writers Award and holds a PhD in English and American literature from Brandeis University.
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