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Millcreek Tuesday Evening Book Club
"They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei
Tuesday, January 12
7:00pm - 8:15pm
Millcreek
Millcreek Storytime RoomJoin our discussion on "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei.
We will meet in the storytime room. This is the sliding door with the tree on it in the children's area. We will also have a session available through Zoom for those who would like to attend virtually. Please contact Jamie at mccref@slcolibrary.org for the login information. Books are always available for the month prior to the book club meeting. They are in the holds area under "Tuesday Evening Book Group".
Book summary:
"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten 'relocation centers', hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. What is American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do?"--Provided by publisher.
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