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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (English and Japanese Edition)

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Mari wonders if anything can bloom at Topaz, where her circle of relatives is interned along side thousands of other Japanese Americans throughout World War II. The summer sun is blazingly hot, and Mari’s art class has begun. But it’s hard to think about anything to attract in a place where nothing beautiful grows. One way or the other, glimmers of hope begin to surface under the harsh sun—in the eyes of a kindly art teacher, in the tender words of Mari’s parents, and in the smile of a new friend. Inspired by her circle of relatives’s experiences, creator Amy Lee-Tai has crafted a story rooted in one of The united states’s most shameful historical episodes—the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans throughout World War II. The art schools which offered internees moments of solace and self-expression are a little known a part of this history. Amy Lee-Tai’s gentle prose and Felicia Hoshino’s stunning mixed media images are a testimony to hope and how it can continue to exist alongside even the harshest injustice.

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