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"""After World War II--when her family was removed from their community and incarcerated in concentration camps on American soil--grade schooler Mitzi Asai returned home to find herself ignored by former friends and classmates and her family alienated from neighbors. Mitzi's hometown gained national notoriety for its venomous 'No Japs Wanted' ads and for its actions against Mitzi's brother and other Japanese American military veterans. Mitzi Asai Loftus decried being treated as an 'invisible object' and eventually became a teacher and public speaker, bluntly revealing her family's treatment. Loftus' updated memoir offers fresh insights--from her father's uniquely frank viewpoints to her own more recent reflections--inspired by queries from audience members and from her sons. In From Thorns to Blossoms, Loftus candidly and refreshingly tells her story 'with [her] chin up.'"" --Linda Tamura, author of The Hood River Issei and Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River"

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Born on a fruit orchard in Hood River, Oregon, in 1932, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay, she now resides in Ashland.

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