In this memoir, David Mas Masumoto tackles a difficult time in American history as well as his own family history. Intertwined in this history of family, the imprisonment camps where over 100,000 Japanese Americans were placed following the entry of the United States in WWII. They were incarcerated not because of any crime but due to their appearance even though they were Americans. There were no camps for Italian Americans or German Americans. The internment camps remain a black mark on the history of the United States. The incident occurred before Masumoto was born and those who were abused did not speak of it as if they had done something wrong. They hadn’t, the government did. When his family was placed on trains to travel to internment camps, his Aunt Shizuko was left behind as a ward of the state due to her disability. She had suffered from Meningitis that left her with a severe mental disability and thus she was placed inside a state institution as her family was imprisoned in Arizona.