Why She Left Us - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto [Used Book]

A haunting cross-cultural story in the tradition of Snow Falling on Cedars. Far from her family, Emi Okada, a young, unmarried girl, alone on the eve of World War two, gives up her first-born, Eric, for adoption. When she becomes pregnant again, Emi returns home, but her mother, horrified that Emi had given up her first-born, goes and collects her grandson from the family that was raising him. In this war period in the US, the family is ordered to an internment camp where they are surrounded by many traditional Japanese families. the Okadas, especially Emi's brothers, find it impossible to forgive their sister for bringing so much humiliation to their family. tension, jealousies and shame rip the family apart.