When the Emperor Was Divine
By Julie Otsuka
A short and understated, but also powerful novel in which members of a Japanese-American family, forced to move from a happy California home to cramped, humiliating detention camps set up by the American government, return home after World War II to find suspicious neighbors, a vandalized house, and a broken family.
- Realistic Fiction
- Alex Awards 2003
- ISBN: 9780375414299