Tenabe, Karin. Washington Square Press, 2017. Set partially in the Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp, this novel follows the romance of Emi Kato, a Japanese diplomat’s daughter, and Christian Lange, a young German from Wisconsin, during their internment and subsequent release; she repatriated to Japan, he enrolling in the U.S. Army. Leo Hartmann, her first love, is a Jewish refugee in Shanghai. “The paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos.”
The Diplomat’s Daughter
