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Naomi Hirahara. (2023). Evergreen. Soho Press.

Naomi Hirahara. 2023. Evergreen. Soho Press.

Naomi Hirahara, Evergreen. Soho Press, 2023.

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   • bioText: Naomi Hirahara is the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of Clark and Division, and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Summer of the Big Bachi, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and one of the Chicago Tribune’s Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers; Gasa Gasa Girl; Snakeskin Shamisen; and Hiroshima Boy. She is also the author of the LA-based Ellie Rush mysteries. A former editor of The Rafu Shimpo newspaper, she has co-written nonfiction books like Life after Manzanar and the award-winning Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America's Edge.
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A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division.
Los Angeles, 1946: It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles.
Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?
Only a few days later, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the low-income hotel where the Watanabes have been staying. When the cops start sniffing around Aki’s home, she begins to worry that the violence tearing through her community might threaten her family. What secrets have the Watanabes been hiding, and can Aki protect her husband from getting tangled up in a murder investigation?

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     March 1, 2023
     

     Two years after their release from the Manzanar concentration camp, Aki Ito and her family can finally return to California, where they live in a low-income hotel that's soon shattered by a murder. In addition, Aki is working as a nurse's aide when an older Issei man is admitted to the hospital with suspicious injuries. Following the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning Clark and Division. Prepub Alert.

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     May 29, 2023
     Hirahara’s insightful follow-up to 2021’s Edgar-winning Clark and Division finds newly married Aki Nakasone returning to Los Angeles in 1946, two years after her family was forcibly relocated to the Manzanar internment camp in Illinois. Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when a bruised and battered old man arrives. Suspecting he has been abused, Aki confronts the man’s son­—who turns out to be Babe Watanabe, her husband Art’s best friend and the best man at her wedding. She never liked Babe, but resists the idea that he could be responsible for his father’s injuries. When a shooting occurs at the sleazy hotel where the Watanabes are staying, Babe drops out of sight, and Art’s friendship with the missing man brings the police to Aki’s door. Fearing that her family may become further embroiled in a murder investigation, Aki sets out to locate Babe on her own. Drawing on rich historical detail, Hirahara provides a visceral account of the hardships facing Japanese Americans during and just after WWII, and her lucid prose elevates this above standard mystery fare. It’s a memorable outing. Agent: Susan Cohen, PearlCo Literary.

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     July 1, 2023
     In this solid follow up to Clark and Division (2021), Hirahara, who has a background in journalism, sets the stage for suspense with a carefully researched social history of Japanese Americans after WWII. After their initial resettlement in Chicago following more than two years at the Manzanar internment camp, the Ito family has returned to Los Angeles, hoping to regain what they can of their former life in their old neighborhood. Art is a veteran of the predominantly Japanese American 442nd Infantry Regiment and Aki is working as a nurse's aide in the Japanese Hospital when she encounters Babe, Art's best friend from boot camp, and his elderly father, Mr. Watanabe, who has been severely beaten. Later, when Mr. Watanabe returns to the hospital with a fatal gunshot wound, Babe is the prime suspect. As Aki tries to find Babe in Boyle Heights, a historically Jewish neighborhood whose population is becoming increasingly Japanese American and Mexican American, she learns more about her changing world and uncovers a dark side that puts her family in danger.

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     Hirahara's series about the Ito family's experiences as detainees at the concentration camp Manzanar continues (after Clark and Division) as the family is finally allowed to return to their home in California. Aki Ito Nakasone has taken up work as a nurse's aide at the Japanese Hospital in Los Angeles while she waits for her new husband Art to be discharged from the all-Nisei 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team. When she examines an elderly man who comes in for treatment of an infection, she notices his body is covered in bruises. Her shock magnifies when she recognizes his son--Babe Watanabe, Art's best man at their wedding. Soon Aki and her family are embroiled in the mess Babe has made, adding to the tension between the reunited newlyweds. Art's inability to share his war experiences and his PTSD drive them further apart. VERDICT Once again, Hirahara illuminates the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II by embodying them in the lives of the Ito family. The author weaves a compelling tale, which is all the more poignant as it reminds readers of the shameful treatment of Japanese Americans, along with the racial prejudice still at work. A must-read.--Julie Ciccarelli

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     Starred review from June 15, 2023
     A compassionate caregiver risks all to solve a brutal crime. Hirahara's beautifully crafted novel opens with a poem that poignantly describes the loss and devastation inflicted on Japanese Americans forced into internment camps. In 1946, two years after she was released from Manzanar, Aki Ito works as a nurse's aide in the newly reopened Japanese Hospital in East Los Angeles, her home before the war. Noticing signs of abuse on newly admitted patient Haruki Watanabe, she asks to speak to the son who brought him to the hospital. This, surprisingly, turns out to be Shinji, aka Babe, the best friend of Aki's husband, Art, and the best man at their wedding in Chicago a year and a half earlier. Babe served in the Army with Art, who's days away from discharge himself. Flashbacks filled with family and friends describe the couple's efforts to rebuild a life after detention and move the story from Aki's stint in Chicago to her current life in LA. When Mr. Watanabe is shot, Aki tries to contact Babe, but he's no longer at the hotel where he and his father had been living. A sense of duty and her affection for the avuncular Watanabe compel her to dig deeper, and Art's homecoming provides further impetus and support. Hirahara expertly folds this crime story into her insightful and fully realized portrait of postwar America and the struggles of Japanese Americans to come to terms with the American society that had imprisoned them during the war. Aki and Art's sleuthing takes them all over the city, most significantly through the criminal underworld, on the way to a complex solution. The mystery adds urgency to this historical snapshot but never overpowers it. A thought-provoking noir with a searing period flavor.

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Los Angeles, 1946: It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles.
Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty...

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