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— by Tamiko Nimura: In the young adult novel We Are Not Free, Yonsei writer Traci Chee follows 14 Nisei teenagers, mostly from San Francisco Japantown, through their wartime incarceration. It’s a daring project; the characters hand off the epic story as if it were a relay baton, each picking up the plot where the last one left off. The result is an emotionally nuanced though historically puzzling book which will appeal to contemporary young adult readers…

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