Color of the Sea

Now reading John Hamamura's excellent debut novel, Color of the Sea. This is a powerful book about two people caught in one of the more painful moments of American history when the treatment of Japanese people in the United States was a travesty of the things America is supposed to stand for.

The story is told from the standpoint of an immigrant Japanese man drafted into the U.S. Army and a Japanese-American girl who returned to Japan just before the war. It is a tale well told against a well researched time in history. It places a very personal and touching aspect on the history of that time.

It's an enthralling book so far, one of the best I've read so far this year.