Displacement [2020, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

by Kiku Hughes

(440 ratings)
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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 keep occurring until Kiku finds herself 'stuck' back 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 in order to survive.

Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.

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Book details


  • Retail price : from $17.99
  • Author : Kiku Hughes
  • Publisher : First Second; Illustrated edition
  • Published : 08-17-2020
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN-10 : 1250193532
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1250193537
  • Reader Reviews : 440 (4.7)

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Kiku Hughes


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Reading With Wrin
Memories are powerful things
Reviewed in the United States on 01-08-2022
Displacement tells the story of Kiku Hughes's family while also adding in some fiction due to missing pieces. The story of Japanese Americans who were put into camps during WWII is one that until recent history is one that was meant to be forgotten. No one wanted to talk about it or the consequences/mark it has left on the country.
Overall this story is one that I loved. Getting to see the reimagined photos in the graphic novel of what the camps looked like and how the people acted helps bring it to life more than if it had just been written word. Getting to see the camps through Kiku reimagined eyes and how little she knew despite being from the future shows the gaps that are left in history classes in school. It also shows the reality for so many people in our country when it came to the camps and being Japanese in the 1940s. This is a story that is going to stick with me for a long time and I hope to revisit it in the future again once I’ve learned more about the camps on my own.
While im still getting used to graphic novel format I do enjoy history that is told through it. I feel like it helps bring it to life more and helps people realize that some of the things in these stories did really happen. Of course doing your own research and continuining to learn about it through non-fiction books is always needed and encouraged. I appreciate how the author at the end added in recommend reads and I will be adding them to my tbr to continue to learn about this time in history.
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Elizabeth Sato
Wide ranging coverage of Japanese-American WWII incarceration
Reviewed in the United States on 12-05-2020
Because I am a member of the Japanese American Citizens League, I am often asked to do programs for schools about the JA incarceration during WWII. So I am always looking for good resources and books I can recommend to teachers and students. Graphic novels are usually a big hit. I would recommend this one. It has an appealing main character, a JA teenager who travels in time to find herself incarcerated, first at Tanforan and then at Topaz. Since she had only heard bits and pieces about the incarceration from her grandparents and parents, she has to figure out a lot for herself. In the process, we learn a lot about JA history. My only reservation about the book is that it is almost too busy, giving lots of detail...for example how the Quakers brought Christmas gifts to the incarcerees. Overall, it paints an accurate picture of camp life and sets the incarceration in a broader historical context..
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Kimi L.
Great Graphic Novel
Reviewed in the United States on 10-08-2020
I loved that Kiku Hughes' graphic novel was inspired by Octavia Butler (I saw a whole lot of Kindred in there, especially the graphic novel edition). I resonated with Kiku's own split identity - being mixed race and not feeling a connection with her Japanese American ancestry - especially with her comments on only learning about the camp through her own school projects (check) and neither or mother's or her generation knowing any of the Japanese language (check). I also really appreciated Hughes' discussion on how the reassimilation of Japanese Americans after the camps was used to push the 'model minority' during the Civil Rights Movement. So many Issei and Nisei supported that myth because 'they wanted to be seen as the 'good minority,' even to the extent that they were willing to participate in Anti-Black racism' (251). I've read a lot of stories and accounts of the incarceration camps (Hughes' preferred term, which I like) and this one stands out in a good way. The graphic novel format simplifies it and yet lands punches in a particularly interesting and evocative way. It's time travel-y, historical fiction vibe was cool too, again having a different approach to talking about the camps..
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