Rahna R. Rizzuto discusses her novel, “Why She Left Us.” She begins by explaining that her book is about a family living in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. She talks about how she is a fourth generation immigrant, and describes how she went about interviewing and talking to people who lived in these camps. She says that her novel is based on a woman who must give up her illegitimate son, and the struggles the characters have as they attempt to bring their family back together. Rizzuto compares internment camps to concentration camps. She ends the interview by talking about how she got the idea for this book: by visiting an internment camp her mother and grandmother had lived in.
Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - West (U.S.) - Fiction
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U-matic tape; Excerpt of show with Martinson interviewing Rahna R. Rizzuto before the break, and Ann Darby after; date and times on case spine: 7/14, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm; date on case front cover: 9/22/99; date on tape: 9/27/99.
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