Overview

The Showgirl and the Writer, A Friendship Forged in the Aftermath of the Japanese American Incarceration encompasses Mueller's own story, beginning at her birth to Caucasian parents in the Tule Lake Japanese American High-Security Camp in Northern California, and tells the tale of her long friendship with Mary Mon Toy, a Nisei performer who was incarcerated in the Minidoka Japanese American Camp in Idaho during WWII. The two met by chance in 1994. By then, Mueller was a published author, and Mary Mon Toy, by necessity of old age, had retired from an unusually successful career on stage and television for an Asian American actor of her time. After Ms. Mon Toy's death, Mueller penned the previously untold story of Mon Toy's fierce determination to put the Incarceration behind her and her precipitous rise as a working actor.

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9781950444588

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"""The Showgirl and the Writer is an entrancing memoir, tangled up with adisgraceful piece of U.S. history, and a portrait of a fascinating woman... I hung on every paragraph."" John Thorndike, Author The World Against Her Skin"

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Born in the Tule Lake Japanese American High-Security camp to Caucasian parents, Marnie Mueller is the author of three novels: ""Green Fires"", ""The Climate of the Country"", and ""My Mother's Island"" (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press). Marnie is a recipient of an American Book Award, a New York Times New and Noteworthy in Paperback, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers, and a MacDowell Fellowship.

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