When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

Text and photographed details of a mural depict the history of the Japanese people in America.

Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.

"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--

Spirits lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mt. Doom.

Drawing from interviews and oral histories, chronicles the history of Japanese American survivors of internment camps.

Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.