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“Clark and Division is a propulsive mystery and a heart-wrenching examination of Japanese internment and relocation in the 1940s. Hirahara beautifully weaves history and injustice into this fascinating and compelling crime novel.”
— Luisa Smith • Book Passage
Summary
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans.
The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Akiโs older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier and moved to the new Japanese American
neighborhood near Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito familyโs reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train.
Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Roseโs death a suicide. Aki cannot believe her perfect, polished, and optimistic sister would end her life. Her instinct tells her there is much more to the story, and she knows she
is the only person who could ever learn the truth.
Inspired by historical events, Clark and Division infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty years of
research and archival work in Japanese American history.