Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoir of her childhood in the Manzanar internment camp after Pearl Harbor, where her family faced harsh conditions, loyalty oaths, riots, and personal struggles including her father's alcoholism and abuse.

As the camp evolves with schools and activities, Jeanne finds some normalcy through baton twirling and social life, but grapples with identity and family breakdown.

Decades later, she returns to the site with her family, reconciling her past and bidding farewell to the camp that shaped her life.