Silver Like Dust - Kimi Cunningham Grant
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, History
Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grants grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimis Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfathers attempts to teach her the language., But there was one part of Obaachans life that had fascinated and haunted Kimi ever since the age of elevenher gentle yet proud Obaachan had once been a prisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years of her life. Obaachan never spoke of those years, and Kimis own mother only spoke of it in whispers. It was a source of haji, or shame. But what had really happened to Obaachan, then a young woman, and the thousands of other men, women, and children like her?, Obaachan would meet her husband in the camps and watch her
