Events › One Bellevue, One Book: What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today with Author Frank Abe

Local author Frank Abe will talk about the parallels between present day mass deportation, Japanese American wartime incarceration, and his graphic history, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.

Frank Abe is co-editor with Floyd Cheung of a new Penguin Classics anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. 

He is lead author of a graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, a Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award. 

Abe won an American Book Award as co-editor of John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, in which he authored the first-ever biography of Okada and traced the origins of his novel. 

He also wrote and directed the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience And The Constitution. Frank Abe helped organize the first-ever “Day of Remembrance.” He is currently developing a new stage adaptation of No-No Boy.

Book signing follows. 

Third Place Books will have books available for purchase.

Registration not required. Space is limited.

A One Bellevue, One Book program. Bringing Bellevue together to read, discuss and engage with one book, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko F. Nimura, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki.

Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org
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