Research Catalog

Title

Gasa gasa girl goes to camp : a Nisei youth behind a World War II fence / Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey ; foreword by Cherstin Lyon.

Author

Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai, 1938-

Publication

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lyon, Cherstin M., 1971-

Description

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"What should by now be a familiar, if always disturbing event in American history--the internment of Japanese American citizens and aliens during World War II--is given an original treatment in this creative memoir. Lily Havey was ten years old when her family of four was uprooted and sent first to Santa Anita Assembly Center in southern California and subsequently for the duration of the war to the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in southeastern Colorado. She experienced removal and confinement as a pubescent young woman and with a distinctly individual perspective. She was an independent and, in her own and apparently her parents' view, difficult child. Her mother called her a gasa gasa girl, meaning wiggly, restless, unable to sit still. The interment put additional stress on the dysfunctional marriage of her parents and especially on her father, who had a particularly hard time coping. Lily Havey's recounting of that time is in turn wrenching, funny, touching, and biting but consistently informative and engrossing, especially with regard to the daily challenges of life and the internees' adaptations"--

Alternative Title

Nisei youth behind a World War II fence

Subject

• Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai, 1938- > Childhood and youth
• Granada Relocation Center > History
• Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Internment camps > Colorado > Amache
• Japanese Americans > Biography
• Japanese American women > Biography

Call Number

JFF 14-1002

ISBN

• 9781607813439 (hardback)
• 1607813432 (hardback)
• 9781607813446 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1607813440 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781607813453 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1607813459 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013043810

OCLC

870142999

Author

Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai, 1938- author.

Title

Gasa gasa girl goes to camp : a Nisei youth behind a World War II fence / Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey ; foreword by Cherstin Lyon.

Publisher

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Lyon, Cherstin M., 1971- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFF 14-1002