TY - BOOK AU - Okubo,Miné TI - Citizen 13660 SN - 0295993545 (paperback) PY - 2014/// CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Okubo, Miné. KW - Central Utah Relocation Center KW - Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) KW - Japanese Americans KW - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Concentration camps KW - Utah N1 - Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1946; Includes bibliographical references N2 - "Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh--and if he is an American too--blush." "A remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account. In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text, she documents the whole episode. all that she saw, objectively, yet with a warmth of understanding." -New York Times Book Review"-- ER -