Books like Executive order 9066 by Maisie Conrat

Experienced by a spirited Japanese‑American family and a native‑born child, this true account chronicles their struggle and survival during forced detention at Manzanar during World War II.

A powerful Iowa family drama that reinterprets Shakespeare’s *King Lear* as a modern US farm saga about inheritance, sibling rivalry and buried family secrets.

224 pages ; 21 cm

Japanese‑American family deported to a Utah internment camp during World War II, narrated through four family members as they confront eviction and life in isolation.

"Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into 'protective custody' shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars. '[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh--and if he is an American too--blush.' 'A remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account. In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text, she documents the whole episode. all that she saw, objectively, yet with a warmth of understanding'"--New York times book review"--

A Japanese-American man refuses to join the war, leading to societal and familial consequences.