TY - BOOK AU - Havey,Lily Yuriko Nakai AU - Lyon,Cherstin TI - Gasa gasa girl goes to camp: a Nisei youth behind a World War II fence SN - 9781607813453 AV - D769 .G373 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, Utah PB - The University of Utah Press KW - Havey, Lily Yuriko Nakai, KW - Granada Relocation Center KW - History KW - Japanese Americans KW - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Concentration camps KW - Colorado KW - Amache KW - Biography KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1. Camping at Santa Anita --; 2. Settling at Amache --; 3. Seasons, Joys, and Sorrows --; 4. Stepping toward Freedom --; Epilogue: The Bow --; Acknowledgments --; Glossary; 2; b N2 - "What should by now be a familiar, if always disturbing event in American history--the internment of Japanese American citizens and aliens during World War II--is given an original treatment in this creative memoir. Lily Havey was ten years old when her family of four was uprooted and sent first to Santa Anita Assembly Center in southern California and subsequently for the duration of the war to the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in southeastern Colorado. She experienced removal and confinement as a pubescent young woman and with a distinctly individual perspective. She was an independent and, in her own and apparently her parents' view, difficult child. Her mother called her a gasa gasa girl, meaning wiggly, restless, unable to sit still. The interment put additional stress on the dysfunctional marriage of her parents and especially on her father, who had a particularly hard time coping. Lily Havey's recounting of that time is in turn wrenching, funny, touching, and biting but consistently informative and engrossing, especially with regard to the daily challenges of life and the internees' adaptations"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=871111&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -