Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Narrated by: Sura Siu

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human - that was miraculous.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast - elderly people, children, babies - now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one.

George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day?

Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s elegant and true love story about her grandparents for listeners of all ages sheds light on a shameful chapter of American history.

©2022 Candlewick Press (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

True, Japanese Americans story

Kudos to this author for telling the truth about what her maternal grandparents went through in the incarceration camps thanks to FDR‘s brilliant idea. Glad to see a book published that’s not hiding the facts under the rug and reminding us that hate is still a driving force in America that people need to continue to fight against.

Very engaging and entertaining

This book is well written. I enjoyed the content and conversation the book shares.