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Camp Nine: A Novel (2011)

by Vivienne Schiffer(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1557289727 (ISBN13: 9781557289728)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

University of Arkansas Press

review 1: This novel, which reads like a memoir, is about a Japanese internment camp in Arkansas - just outside a fictional tiny, poor town (but based on a real place). While the author does describe life in the camp, the main character is a young white girl who lives next to the camp and her growing awareness of the injustices being committed in her backyard. White/black relations of the time are explored in detail and provide an interesting counterpoint to white/Japanese relations.
review 2: Chess Morton lives on a large plantation slab of land in rural Arkansas with her widowed mother. Her paternal grandparents live on the same land in a mansion. Chess and her mother get by with minimal contact with her grandparents as the adults are always in a conflict over some... morething. The latest conflict stems from the selling of Camp Nine, land that was left to Chess, to the US Government to use for a Japanese Internment Camp. The story is engrossing and very well written; Chess and her mother become involved in the camp and in the lives of the Japanese people held captive there. I think the reader gets a good picture of the needless hardships endured by the men, women and children taken from their daily lives and relocated to camps due to the fear produced by the Pearl Harbor attacks of World War 2. This would make a great pick for book clubs. less

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