George Takei’s picture book, which offers a child-friendly perspective on his early years spent in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, is now available for pre-order.
Cover art: On Wednesday, Takei shared the book’s cover art on his Instagram account and announced the book’s pre-order availability.
“On December 7, 1941, the Pearl Harbor bombing changed the lives of Japanese Americans forever. Two months later, President Roosevelt declared us ‘enemy aliens’ and all Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes. At age five, I was living behind a barbed wire fence. MY LOST FREEDOM is my new children’s picture book about how my family persevered despite living in the Japanese American incarceration camps.”
A literary voice: “My Lost Freedom” adds to George Takei’s literary contributions, which include “Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet,” focusing on his substantial social media following and his autobiography, “To the Stars.”
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