To Hiroko, California was a different world-a world of barbeques, station wagons and college. It was August 1941.įrom the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. Twenty years later, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the "SS Nagoya Maru" to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was the early 1920s and Masao had dreams for the future-and a fascination with the politics and opportunities of a world that was changing every day. In her 38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving portrayal of families divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shameful episode in recent American history.Ī man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions.
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