We Are Not Free

SKU: 9780358131434
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Author Traci Chee

Publisher: HMH: 2020

Format: Hardcover: 400 pages

Condition: New

ISBN: 9780358131434


Target Age Group: 13 to 17


Description


Shortlisted for 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.


From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.

 

Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.

 

Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.

 

Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.

 

In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.


Reviews


Chee is a master storyteller.... Here, she uses her own San Francisco-based Japanese American family's history to inform a blazing and timely indictment of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Her passion and personal involvement combine with her storytelling talents to create a remarkable and deeply moving account of the incarceration.... [We Are Not Free] should become required curriculum reading on a shameful and relevant chapter in U.S. history.-- "Booklist, STARRED review


A brilliant and intimate portrayal of several San Francisco teenagers during the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War II. Chee's nuanced and unforgettable characters will serve to enlighten readers about this devastating and shameful piece of America's past. A beautiful, painful, and necessary work of historical fiction. --Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor winning author of The Night Diary


About the Author


Traci Chee is a New York Times bestselling author of the YA fantasy trilogy- The Reader, The Speaker, and The Storyteller. Shortlisted and nominated for multiple awards and accolades, Kirkus has also starred each of her previous trilogy titles, a rare accomplishment she shares of such authors as Suzanne Collins, Philip Pullman and Lauren Oliver. In We Are Not Free, Chee changes gears, pulling from her own family history in this stunning and evocative novel, one that resonates so deeply against today's tumultuous political backdrop. Twitter: @tracichee, Instagram and Facebook: @TraciCheeAuthor, http: //www.tracichee.com.

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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

Traci Chee in We Are Not FrEE pullS from her own family history in this stunning and evocative novel, one that resonates so deeply against today's tumultuous political backdrop.