A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George
Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps
during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American
icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage,
country, loyalty, and love.
George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his
captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights.
But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a
four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his
father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an
uncertain future.
In 1942, at the
order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese
descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten
"relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from
home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
They Called Us
Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed
wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his
mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way
those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
What does it mean to
be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what
can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins
co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony
Becker for the journey of a lifetime.