We Are Not Free

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Traci Chee

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 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.

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Author

Traci Chee

Pages

400

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published Date

2020

ISBN

035813143X 9780358131434

Ratings

Google: 3.5

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"Wow, this is a powerful book. It's considered historical fiction but many true historical things are in this book. This book shows what some Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens went through in the U.S. after Pearl Harbor. There are a lot of narrarators, and I really liked seeing the perspectives of all the characters. I highly recommend "

Skye Edelson-Bennett

"Very good, the ending almost had me crying "

Jay

"Once again a book that suffered due to my short attention span. However I can tell that if I read it at a normal pace I would have connected to and liked the characters better. I however can't justify a perfect rating due to this, I apologize. I think this book is important and that people should read it to get a better picture of this horrible thing America did but doesn't like to talk about. I mean this happened to the authors grandparents so it wasn't even that long ago that this happened."

Where's Waldo

"I really liked this book and if you want to know more about the encampment of Japanese Americans or just looking for a good historical fiction book to read this one is for you. However I can’t give this book a perfect rating due to the fact (for me at least some people like this) you see many perspectives. Due to the different perspectives I had a hard time connecting with the character’s and I would have enjoyed it more if it was just the same few character’s. It did make you see different perspectives but I had questions and I would get connected to a character never to know what happened to them. Besides that great book!"