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 - Paperback

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

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

by David Mas Masumoto
$18.95
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781636281032
Author David Mas Masumoto
PublisherRed Hen Press
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

By David Mas Masumoto

About David Mas Masumoto

David Mas Masumoto is an organic farmer and award-winning author of 11 books, including Epitaph for a Peach, winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award for Literary Food Writing, and a James Beard Award finalist. He and his daughter, Nikiko, wrote this story together. Nikiko Masumoto is a fourth-generation farmer on the Masumoto Family Farm, coauthor of The Perfect Peach and Changing Season: A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm, and cofounder of the Yonsei Memory Project. She lives in Del Rey, CA, with her family. Lauren Tamaki is an award-winning illustrator and designer whose work includes the book Seen and Unseen, written by Elizabeth Partridge, which garnered numerous starred reviews and accolades, including the Robert F. Sibert Medal and the Bologna Ragazzi Award. She lives and works in both New York and Toronto.

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