Secret Harvests (eBook)

A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

David Mas Masumoto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Red Hen Press (Verlag)
978-1-63628-078-3 (ISBN)

Infos

I discover a lost aunt, separated from ourfamily due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mentaldisability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when allJapanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became award of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years laterfound her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive?Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family toforge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven toexplore my identity and the meaning of familyespecially as farmers tied to theland. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in theearth that we work and a sense of place that defines us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2023
• Illustrationen: Patricia Miye Wakida
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Asian American disability • Buddhism • Disability • Disability stories • Family • family secrets • Farm • farm community • Gila River Relocation Center • Internment/Relocation • Japanese American • Japanese American Organic farming Disability Disability stories Asian American disability Internment/Relocation Gila River Relocation Center Family secrets Shame Buddhism Rural poverty Farm community Rural community Organic peaches Radical farming Family Farm Masumoto farms • Masumoto farms • Organic Farming • Organic peaches • Radical farming • Rural community • Rural Poverty • Shame
• ISBN-10: 1-63628-078-1 / 1636280781
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63628-078-3 / 9781636280783