Looking After Minidoka

This is the compelling and disturbing true story of a World War II "relocation center," where Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the US government. Looking After Minidoka blends history, poetry, family narratives, and personal insights to tell the story of one family's internment. Spanning three generations, this chronicle of origins and imagination, ambition and hope, insiders and outsiders, trauma and silent tears, speaks to issues that still affect many Americans today. An unpleasant memory for Nakadate's family and the 10,000 others who were imprisoned at the camp, Minidoka is a reminder of an invisible and almost forgotten life, and what it can mean to be foreign in America.