{"id":10380,"date":"2019-03-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2019-03-01T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:19:52","slug":"in-wartime-love-is-written-within-these-lines-by-stephanie-morrill-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10380","title":{"rendered":"In wartime, love is written WITHIN THESE LINES, by Stephanie Morrill (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pearl Harbor,
Evacuations and preparations,
American citizens sent to concentration camps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Manzanar<\/a>, Heart Mountain, and the other ‘relocation camps’ where Japanese-Americans were sent – with only the suitcases they could carry – were concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trusting neighbors to safeguard their houses, selling cars and business equipment for pennies on the dollar, Japanese-Americans on the West Coast hoped to return home soon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents and neighbors wouldn’t approve of their relationship, but after his family is sent to Manzanar, Taichi and Evalina write letter after letter, daring to plan a future together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy book birthday on March 5th to Within These Lines<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you speak out against popular opinion in stressful times, as Evalina did?
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Book info<\/strong>: Within These Lines \/ Stephanie Morrill. Blink YA Books, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My book talk<\/strong>: The budding romance between Evalina and Taichi becomes a long-distance correspondence when his family is ‘evacuated’ to Manzanar concentration camp in the California desert after Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many disagree that Japanese-Americans are true citizens of this country during World War II, but Italian-American Evalina will keep writing persuasive letters to San Francisco newspapers and arguing with her political science professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With blankets for apartment walls and dust blowing like despair through any crevice at Manzanar, Taichi will stand against the pro-Japan Black Dragon gang to protect his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though mixed-race marriage is illegal in their home state, it’s worth dreaming of a future together\u2026right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter by letter, thought by thought, Evalina and Taichi are separated by many valleys and mountains, held together by hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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