Sadie stopped holding Michiko and relaxed her arms. “Everyone who was Japanese had to move away from the coast. It is the law.” She slumped into a chair. “We left before they threw us out.”
“Stop it,” cried Eiko. “Stop it, Sadie.”
But Sadie didn’t stop talking. Her voice grew louder, as if she were telling a whole roomful of people. “The government made new laws for the Japanese every week. We weren’t to have cameras or radios. Then we couldn’t have cars or boats.”
Ted walked away to look out the window.
“We couldn’t go to certain stores. Japanese children couldn’t go to public schools or use the libraries. They even shut down the schools that taught Japanese culture and language.”
Michiko raised her fingers to her mouth. It was the government that had stopped her lessons in calligraphy?
“First, they took your uncle’s boat,” Sadie exclaimed, “then they took your father.”
Michiko ran to her mother. “You said my father was working in the mountains,” she said, searching her mother’s face.
“He is working in the mountains,” her mother replied tiredly as she smoothed the top of her daughter’s head. “He is building a road and receiving a wage.” But her voice sounded strange, as if she was unsure of what she was saying.
Michiko turned to her aunt. “Is that true?”
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