Manga and Graphic Novels: Displacement: Kiku Hughes

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Last Updated: Sep 2, 2024 9:41 AM

Displacement

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes.

Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.

These displacements continue until Kiku finds herself "stuck" in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance to survive.

Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale highlighting memory's intergenerational impact and power.

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