Our YA Book Club has selected We Are Not Free by Traci Chee as their September selection. A collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass US incarcerations of World War II.

Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.

Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.

Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.

In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

Copies of September’s selection are available for purchase at the shop. We would love to have you join us for the discussion. If you have any questions about this or any of the book clubs we host each month, please give us a call at 817-489-5747, and we will be happy to assist you.