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  • The Block Manager

  • A True Story of Love in the Midst of Japanese American Internment Camps
  • By: Judy Mundle
  • Narrated by: Micah Kobayashi
  • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Block Manager

By: Judy Mundle
Narrated by: Micah Kobayashi
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The Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American-born child of Japanese immigrants. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Janet's life in California was uprooted when thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast - including Janet's family - were forced into internment camps.

Because of her brilliant command of English and Japanese, she was assigned the job of block manager. Janet was shuffled between three camps, got married, and had a child while the war raged on. After enduring the psychological strain of forced incarceration, her very survival was threatened when she joined her husband in post-war Japan as famine gripped the country. Janet remained an American patriot through all her ordeals, holding on to the dream of reuniting with her family in the US.

The Block Manager beautifully captures the uncertainty surrounding the internment camps and the gaman — patience with dignity — of the detainees.

©2019 Judy Mundle (P)2020 Judy Mundle
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Great book

The Block Manager is a great book. It's a story of a woman surviving a WWII Japanese internment camp and aftermath with grace and resilience. Janet Hayashi proves your life does not have to be defined by events, but by how you handle them. As well as an inspiring story, I learned so much about the war that I hadn't heard before. The narrator, Micah Kobayash,i did an excellent job telling Janet's story. I highly recommend this book.

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