Bernadette' Hammelman
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Jamie Ford:
This might be one of the most asked-to-author questions. Sorry in advance. When did you decide to write your first book, & why the topic you picked? More importantly to me, how did you hear the story in the first place? I admit to not having read anything yet by you, but this book has piqued my curiosity for sometime. (so why haven't I yet read it? SO many books, such little time) oops, that was a question for me!
Jamie Ford
Hi Bernadette,
My dad, who was Chinese American, was 13 at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Afterward, he was given a button to wear that read "I AM CHINESE" because kids would think he was Japanese as he walked to school and throw rocks at him, he'd get in fights, etc.
My first book is a love story between a Chinese American boy and a Japanese American girl during WWII. But it's also the story of the Japanese Internment, seen though the eyes of this Chinese boy.
The story began after my dad passed away and I was exploring his childhood. I happened to go to a writers workshop in 2006, led by an author named Orson Scott Card, who challenged me to write something very personal, which I did :)
My dad, who was Chinese American, was 13 at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Afterward, he was given a button to wear that read "I AM CHINESE" because kids would think he was Japanese as he walked to school and throw rocks at him, he'd get in fights, etc.
My first book is a love story between a Chinese American boy and a Japanese American girl during WWII. But it's also the story of the Japanese Internment, seen though the eyes of this Chinese boy.
The story began after my dad passed away and I was exploring his childhood. I happened to go to a writers workshop in 2006, led by an author named Orson Scott Card, who challenged me to write something very personal, which I did :)
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