Farewell to Manzanar by Our Read 2 Succeed college wide read book selection for spring 2013 is Farewell to Manzanar: a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki. 
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment cap with ten thousand other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons, and a dance band called the Jive Bombers, who would play any popular song except the nation's number one hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
*May 23, 2013: Author Presentation and Book Signing 12:30-2:30 PM in CSS 217
*All events offer refreshments and exciting prize drawings including prizes from Starbucks and Barnes & Noble!