![]() ![]() ![]() The girl observes events on and off the train as if she is on an adventure rather than on her way to a long confinement. ![]() The family has been confined at a horseracing track for the past four and a half months, and now they are on their way to a relocation camp in Utah. The second chapter comes from the perspective of the eleven-year-old daughter while three of the family members are on an eastbound train. She must complete these tasks alone because her husband is away, having been arrested immediately after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some of the tasks she completes would upset the children, so she does these while the children are away. She completes the majority of her work while the children, a girl and a boy, are in school. She has been packing for nine days after first seeing announcements requiring all people of Japanese descent to report for relocation. The first chapter comes from the perspective of the mother. The novel begins in Berkeley, California in the days leading up to the forced relocation and follows the family until their return after the war. ![]() The novel When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a Japanese-American family separated and incarcerated after the outbreak of World War II. ![]()
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