The Poet and the Silk Girl

A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations. "It is both overwhelming and affirming to imagine, in the midst of their darkest hours, and in the middle of a country and a war that willfully misperceived them as enemy aliens, that the future, for Itaru and Shizuko Ina, was not only possible, but would deliver redemption in the form of the intimate, inexhaustible attention of a daughter." — Brandon Shimoda , a