A Tacoma author grapples with Japanese American incarceration and her father's death
Tacoma author Tamiko Nimura's father died when she was just 10 years old.
Among the things he left behind was an unpublished manuscript about his family’s incarceration at the Tule Lake camp for Japanese Americans.
Nimura ultimately made a pilgrimage to Tule Lake in 2014, to see where her father was forced to spend part of his childhood.
She used her father's manuscript and her own experience to write a new book called “A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake,” which is out now.
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