Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
A Japanese-American college student tries to create a normal life for herself in 2052 Los Angeles--a place where water is rationed, disease flourishes, corruption is the rule, and survival takes precedence over everything else.
A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested confining all enemy aliens and all Japanese because he said their loyalty was questionable and that action should be taken now before any other incident like Pearl Harbor occurs.