Toshio Mori endured internment camps and overcame discrimination to become the first Japanese American to publish a book of fiction

“Yokohama, California” remained out of print for 35 years before the University of Washington Press added it to their “Classics of Asian American Literature” and reprinted it in 1985. The book continues to be available through the publisher. Another edition was released in 2015. Read more

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