In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted.
In the early 1980s tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war weary country to take up residence in the United States. This book is the story of that passage, and the story of the Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and…