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 ickets</a>\nGeneral: $10\, Students/Seniors: $5\, Members: FREE\n\nJoin Ed
 gar Award–winning author\, <strong>Naomi Hirahara</strong>\, for a dive
  into the history of Little Tokyo through her newest book\, <em>Evergreen
 </em>. <em>Evergreen</em>\, the follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award
 –winning <em>Clark and Division</em>\, is the story of a Japanese Ameri
 can nurse’s aide who navigates the dangers of post-World War II and post
 -Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family. Hiraha
 ra’s presentation will include photographs from 1946 Little Tokyo\, Boyl
 e Heights\, and Burbank trailer parks. This event will include an optiona
 l self-guided tour of Little Tokyo landmarks featured in the book\, with h
 istorian<strong> Robert Shoji </strong>and musician <strong>Gary Fukush
 ima</strong> sharing outside the site of the historic Finale Club.\n<em>T
 he JANM Book Club is a series of Public Programs that highlights new publi
 cations by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and 
 culture.</em>\n<strong></strong>\n<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong>\n\nIt’
 s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar 
 concentration camp and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans.
  Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but
  nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is sta
 rting from scratch\, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee cam
 ps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Ang
 eles.\n\nAki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Bo
 yle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries
 . When she seeks out his son\, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s
  best friend\, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?\n\nOnly
  a few days later\, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the low-income h
 otel where the Watanabes have been staying. When the cops start sniffing a
 round Aki’s home\, she begins to worry that the violence tearing through
  her community might threaten her family. What secrets have the Watanabes 
 been hiding\, and can Aki protect her husband from getting tangled up in a
  murder investigation?\n\n<em>Evergreen </em>will be available for sale a
 t the JANM Store in August 2023.
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SUMMARY:JANM Book Club: Evergreen with Naomi Hirahara
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