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beautiful!


Elena Botkin-Levy

Posted on October 17, 2010 at 04:23 PM

I love this piece! It stays personal while offering a real exploration of family history in a larger cultural context. The progression of the piece felt very natural and and it's well written!

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Caption: Mara Kumagai Fink (right) interviewing her great aunt Matsue at Manzanar, the camp she was brought to in northern California.
  • "Japanese-American granddaughter questions internment"
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  • Summary: Mara Kumagai Fink explores her family's experiences in the internment camps during WWII. Mara spent the summer interviewing family members and revisiting the camps with them. She wondered "Why am I angrier about it than they are?"

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