Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher WW Norton, and the author Ken Mochizuki for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. As someone who has read a number of Japanese American internment literature, I welcome the addition of discovering more works in this body and canon of work. I find the history personal as an Asian-American living near places of Japanese American history (i.e. in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle, and Tacoma). Learning about the unjust dispossession, displacement, and incarceration of Japanese-Americans continues to be relevant today to the deportation of Latine and Southeast Asian people. Before I read this work, I was only familiar with Yuri Kochiyama as a figure of Japanese American reparations, but through Mochizuki's labor and care work I learned about Michi as well. Mochizuki gives a brief overview that introduces Michi to the reader and has made me aware of her work and curious enough to read it. I'm glad Mochizuki also mentions and details the internment of Japanese-Latine people. I appreciate Mochizuki's efforts in crafting and researching this history and opening up the dimensions of this event for me. Because of Mochizuki, I want to learn more about Michi and Japanese-Latine people. Thank you Mochizuki for your work. ( )

This is a really powerful biography of a fascinating woman -- and a really good example of how one person can change the course of history and call political leaders on their egregious behavior. The biography itself is a well documented yet accessible read. I wish it had a more engaging cover, because it's important to revisit the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and reflect on the enormous harm that America dealt them. ( )

Thanks to extensive, committed research and the staunch encouragement of her husband, Michi Nishiura Weglyn uncovered evidence that the State Department, FBI, and military intelligence did not support incarcerating the Japanese population after the Pearl Harbor bombing, but President Roosevelt went against their counsel. Michi wrote a book based on her research which was critically received and boosted the movement to redress those who were incarcerated. Michi went on making good trouble, advocating redress for: Japanese-American railworkers who were unjustly fired during the war; Japanese Latin Americans who were turned over to U.S. authorities and interned; and Nisei draft resisters. The life story of this unstoppable, less well-known activist may inspire readers to pick up her book, "Years of Infamy," published in 1976 and reissued since. ( )