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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

Masumoto, David Mas
Wakida, Patricia Miye

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 1636280773
ISBN13: 9781636280776
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
I discover a lost aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a ward of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found 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 to forge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven to explore my identity and the meaning of family--especially as farmers tied to the land. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the earth that we work and a sense of place that defines us.

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