Irrepressible

From Monica Stone’s Nisei Daughter, we learn of a joyful girlhood in pre-WWII Seattle, the vibrancy of living in a Japanese hotel-household along a waterfront with parents who cared about poems and also shorthand, and near ships which carried rumors and news. The bombing of Pearl Harbor changes everything for the daughter and the family. Still, we turn the pages to be immersed in her brother’s impossibly beautiful (and funny) wedding in an Idaho camp, and meet the kind-hearted Chicago couple who commit to a college education for a faraway stranger.