Stubborn Twig

The beautiful Hood River Valley is the setting for Stubborn Twig

It would be hard to guess that placid Hood River had a national reputation as the most blatant anti-Japanese community in the United States during WWII.
I was a dorm mate of an interned Japanese American at Concordia Academy, a Lutheran boarding high school in Portland, Oregon. (We played football against Hood River High that year, one of my best games as a senior.)

I found the book well worth reading. You can download it and listen as well. The author will be in Portland April 11.