Overview

An anthology of memoirs written by Senior Asian American participants in the senior Asian American writing workshop conducted by Genny Lim at the Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California, San Francisco Japantown, in collaboration with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. Narratives include accounts of Japanese American Internment and post-internment by former detainees, Florence Dobashi, Harumi Serata and Michi Tashiro, an immigration saga by Leon Sun, poems and coming of age stories by Brenda Chinn, May Chung and Leslie Yee-Murata.

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The writings in this rich anthology disprove any notions of the so-called 'model minority.' Their names alone, Genny Lim, Florence Ohmura Dobashi, Harumi Serata, Michiko Tashiro, Leon Sun, May Chung, Brenda Chinn and Sato Hashizuma, invite the reader to open and see, to remember and act, to validate and inspire, to shout and dance. Especially, to live. Through language and love. Silences? Not. - Nellie Wong, author of Breakfast, Lunch Dinner.

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Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus, born and raised in San Francisco to immigrant parents from the Kwantung region of Toisan, an oral culture rich in folklore, poetry and storytelling. Lim's award-winning play, Paper Angels, was the first Asian American play that aired on PBS's American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S., Canada and China, garnering the James Wong Howe, Villager, San Francisco and Seattle Fringe Festival Awards.

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