# can you help me find this book?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 12, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776 "2002-03-12T03:56:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@teppei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teppei)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/1 "2002-03-12T03:56:32Z")
looking for a book for my s o, about an asian girl growing up in WW2 America, with the focus on the Japanese concentration camps. dont’ know the author, or the title-sorry. Maybe it’s about 300 pages. Anyone have any idea of the name or the author? -Teppei
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/2 "2002-03-12T04:00:37Z")
Sounds like Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston’s novel, Farewell to Manzanar.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/3 "2002-03-12T17:13:57Z")
Could it be _Snow Falling on Cedars_ by David Guterson?
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### Author:  [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/4 "2002-03-12T17:37:12Z")
Possibilities:
- Salted Lemons \* author unknown (out of print)
- Jar of Dreams \* author Uchida
Is this a kid’s book or adult book? If it’s children’s you may want to submit it to an awesome service called “Stump the Bookseller” at [http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html](http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html) .
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### Author:  [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/5 "2002-03-12T21:03:58Z")
I’m inclined to agree with **don’t ask**.
Do you remember the bit about the syrup on the rice in the government cafeterias, or perhaps the car with the gear selector mounted on the dashboard? Those, unfortunately, are my most vivid memories of the book–it’s been twenty years since I read it.
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### Author:  [@teppei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teppei)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/6 "2002-03-13T14:06:36Z")
it is farewell to manzanar, thanks for the help. told this to my bf, and he said that yeah, that’s one of the books, but he got it confused with the book he _really_ was looking for ( :mad: ), which was about a Chinese girl in an Asian country, forgot where, which at the time was being bombed; still, ww2 era. she goes on some sort of journey, meeting lots of people along the way. about 3 times as long as FTM. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@teppei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teppei)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-this-book/97776/7 "2002-03-14T13:21:59Z")
_bump_