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September 05, 2008
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| Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower by Carl Nomura | Reviewed by Alice Klein |  | Publisher: Erasmus Books
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ISBN: 0970194730
Genre: Non-fiction
Subgenre: Memoir
Release date: Sep 2003
Format: Trade
Pages: 272
Price: $18.95 | Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower is a living testimony of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. For Carl Nomura, a Japanese-American who was a U. S. citizen, it was internment in a camp during World War II; for others it was separate restrooms; and, for our Native Americans, it was the Trail of Tears. Hard as it is to believe, the country that "imprisoned" him as an "enemy alien" decided to give him citizen status once again and draft him into an army that didn’t know what to do with him.
This book is a collection of short essays that essentially bridges the gap from before his birth through an extremely poignant memorial to his wife, Louise, who died in an auto accident.
This is a book for everyone and should be a "must read". Anyone who truly believes in our national anthem’s verse "...in the land of the free and the home of the brave" needs to read this moving testimony and learn. | | |
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