Author Discussion—Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

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Saturday August 7

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2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM

Join Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Clark and Division, for a virtual conversation and Q&A on blending history and fiction in this powerful new mystery.

About the Book:

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 Aki’s 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 family’s reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train.

Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose’s 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.

Clark and Division will be available at the JANM Store starting August 3. Signed copies will be available.

JANM Members join us for a virtual meet-and-greet before this program at 1 p.m. (PDT): RSVP HERE

 

Current JANM Members: Please register or sign in to receive your member discounts. Discounted prices will automatically appear after you add items to the shopping cart.

You will be emailed links and instructions to join our conversation on Zoom. Please confirm that the email that you register with is the best way to reach you. Contact publicprograms@janm.org  if you have any additional questions or specific access concerns.

 

$10.00