Although historical YA fiction, this story is also personal to me. Traci Chee is my amazingly talented cousin, and the stories of this book were inspired by our family history of Japanese-American Incarceration and WWII.
Below is a sample of the section I am narrating, as well as Traci's website for more information about the book, and the link to purchase the audiobook. I hope you enjoy! AudioFile's Behind the Mic review is also linked through Spotify.
Below is a sample of the section I am narrating, as well as Traci's website for more information about the book, and the link to purchase the audiobook. I hope you enjoy! AudioFile's Behind the Mic review is also linked through Spotify.
“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing.
Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.
We are not free.
But we are not alone.”
From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.
Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.
Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.
Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.
In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.
Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.
Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.
In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.