No-No Boy

By: John Okada

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Paperback | 21 May 2019 | Edition Number 1

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The first Japanese American novel- a powerful, radical testament to the experiences of Japanese American draft resisters in the wake of World War II

A Penguin Classic

The first Japanese American novel- a powerful, radical testament to the experiences of Japanese American draft resisters in the wake of World War II

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

A Penguin Classic

After their forcible relocation to internment camps during World War II, Japanese Americans were expected to go on with their lives as though nothing had happened, assimilating as well as they could in a changed America. But some men resisted. They became known as "no-no boys," for twice having answered no on a compulsory government survey asking whether they were willing to serve in the U.S. armed forces and to swear allegiance to the United States. No-No Boy tells the story of one such draft resister, Ichiro Yamada, whose refusal to comply with the U.S. government earns him two years in prison and the disapproval of his family and community in Seattle. A touchstone of the immigrant experience in America, it dispels the "model minority" myth and asks pointed questions about assimilation, identity, and loyalty.

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Industry Reviews

"Brilliant . . . Spectacular and troubling and topical . . . Filled with charged moments and observations." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"A daring book . . . A close literary kin to Richard Wright's Native Son . . . There is no other novel like it about Japanese Americans in the postwar period. . . . A cautionary tale . . . of the incarceration of immigrant families based on racial prejudice, executive privilege, and the false assertion of military necessity . . . Over a half century later, Okada's novel challenges us once again with the question of character, asking us, as individuals and as a society, what are we made of." --Karen Tei Yamashita, from the Introduction

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