Though Kiku doesn’t exert her will on the past, Hughes centers that powerlessness to create a compelling story about an oft-overlooked period of U.S. Art features straightforward linework with full-color, often spare backgrounds that focus on characters. Through Kiku, readers learn key details about this moment in history, among them the murder of James Wakasa and the further relocation of people who voted, in a loyalty questionnaire, against serving in the U.S. She struggles over whether to introduce herself and manages to cope with the help of fellow prisoners Aiko Mifune and love-interest May Ide. Later, pulled from her Seattle home during the Trump Muslim ban, Kiku spends more than a year interned as a Japanese prisoner alongside her then-living maternal grandmother.

On a trip to San Francisco with her mother, an ephemeral fog transports Kiku from the site of her maternal grandmother’s childhood home to the past.

Japanese American Kiku Hughes, 16, feels disconnected from her Japanese heritage, and she knows little about her family’s history, which includes internment in Utah’s Topaz Relocation Center. First, Hughes talks about the transition from writing prose to graphic novels, and the differences there between showing and telling. In this clip, she addresses the technical and personal aspects between the pages. Asexuality is one of the most overlooked identities on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Today: Brian Hibbs talks to author Kiku Hughes about her graphic novel, Displacement. Displacement Paperback Illustrated, Februby Lucy Knisley (Author) 68 ratings Kindle & Comixology 14.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 34.88 2 Used from 34.88 9 New from 43.43 Paperback 19.99 24 Used from 0.94 18 New from 11. Mixing fact and fiction in this autobiographical graphic novel, debut author Hughes follows a teen experiencing Japanese internment firsthand through time travel to the WWII era. By Rebecca Burgess (Jessica Kingsley, Oct.

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