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“The Poet and the Silk Girl” Book Talk with Satsuki Ina
The book tells the story of the Ina family, who were among the 125,000 Japanese Americans forcibly displaced and incarcerated during WWII. After the talk, enjoy a book signing, light refreshments, and the chance to explore the California Museum’s exhibit “Uprooted: An American Story.”
Event Schedule:
1 - 2 pm: Book talk with Satsuki Ina on her new memoir The Poet and the Silk Girl
2 - 3 pm: Book signing, light refreshments, and the opportunity to explore the California Museum’s exhibit about the Japanese American incarceration during WWII, Uprooted: An American Story
About "The Poet and The Silk Girl":
In this moving memoir, Satsuki Ina—who was born to Shizuko in the Tule Lake Segregation Center—recovers the story of how her parents survived and resisted their incarceration in U.S. concentration camps. Drawing from diary entries, heart-wrenching haiku, censored letters, government documents, and clandestine messages, Ina shares the eyewitness dispatches of Shizuko and her newlywed husband Itaru. Their words, interwoven with the ravel of war and Ina’s own retrospective reflection, afford an intimate view into the experiences of those whose lives were upended, by reason of race alone, by Executive Order 9066—a presidential edict that dispossessed an entire generation of Japanese people, including U.S. citizens, of their homes and livelihoods.
Tickets are just $5: https://californiamuseum.org/satsuki-ina-book-talk/
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