![]() Many times she describes herself as having fire in her eyes, a trait that’s fully supported by everything we learn about her through her letters. She’s quick to anger and impulsive, but deeply caring and self-aware. While her characterization happens mostly through letters or others’ accounts of her person, she feels just as real and three-dimensional as Alex, our point of view character. The characters in this novel are exceptionally well-drawn, especially Charlie. From the awful ways in which communities treated their Japanese American neighbors in the immediate aftermath of World War II (acts of violence, racial slurs, imposed curfews…) to unceremoniously and unjustly forcing fathers from their homes and away from their families, author Andrew Fukuda goes into great detail so as to paint a realistic picture of what the atmosphere in America was like in 1941. Though I’ve been aware of the Japanese American interment camps for some time now, I never truly realized or was shown the horrors lurking behind their walls until I read This Light Between Us. ![]() ![]() This Light Between Us is a moving story that shines a light on the minority World War II perspectives and voices that have been drowned out over the years by those who are louder. ![]() ![]() But when the war reaches their personal shores and threatens their ways of life, their friendship and allyship become even more vital to their survival. As World War II descends on their communities, they rely on each other for comfort and friendship through flurries of letters back and forth. ![]()
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