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The mystery novel follows a JapaneseAmerican family returning from WWII internment to postwar Los Angeles, where they become entangled in a murder case that also explores the city's layered social history.
In the new mystery novel Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara, a Japanese-American family that had been interned during World War II returns home to a Los Angeles that isn't what they remember.
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The mystery novel follows a JapaneseAmerican family returning from WWII internment to postwar Los Angeles, where they become entangled in a murder case that also explores the city's layered social history.
In the new mystery novel Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara, a Japanese-American family that had been interned during World War II returns home to a Los Angeles that isn't what they remember.
You see them clearly in the absorbing new mystery Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara.
The book is a sequel to her acclaimed 2021 novel Clark and Division about a Japanese-American family who'd been locked up in the Manzanar concentration camp.
In Evergreen, the family returns home to a 1946 Los Angeles where they discover that their old world has been erased. Homes taken over, businesses seized by the state, the little Tokyo neighborhood transformed into an AfricanAmerican enclave known as Bronzeville.
The old man is shot dead in his hotel room and Babe proves, well, hard to find. And so, in her unobtrusive way, Aki starts playing detective.