I loved the way that he spoke about his father throughout the book. The story also does a great job delivering personal moments as well as the historical events that impacted George Takei and his family. The story bounces back and forth between Takei’s childhood, showing his experiences with his family, and then a more present-day version of himself, reflecting back on those days or speaking to an audience about his experiences. The combination felt much larger than the sum of its parts. I also thought the balance between the illustrations and the stories was expertly done. There are lots of panels that at first glance seemed very simple, but as I looked at them longer, I noticed how the illustrations often drew my eye to important features. The illustrator, Harmony Becker, did an amazing job focusing each panel in on the most critical elements. I discovered my library had an electronic copy, so I checked it out and read it in one sitting. I’d heard of this book before, but it was mentioned again in George Takei’s biography in MORE AWESOME ASIAN AMERICANS, a book featuring 20 biographies of Asian Americans.
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. 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. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Long before George Takei 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. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself. Published JAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About They Called Us EnemyĪ graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei’s childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
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