On November of 1917, Hana Omiya arrived on the port of San Francisco, anxiously awaiting to find her handsome, husband to be, Taro Takeda. However, when Hana finally got to see the real face of Tora, she realized that this was not the guy she saw in the picture, but an older man with a high forehead, a thick noise, and heavy lips. Through time Hana learned to love him. Nevertheless, they f

The friendship between Kiku and Hana kept growing throughout the years. However, when Pearl Harbor was hit, all Japanese American citizens were sent to concentration camps all over the Unites States. The Takedas were sent to one in the middle of the desert, and Kiku was sent to one in Idaho. Soon after that, Taro and Hana became very depressed and would go for walks and turn to the desert for peace and comfort. On one of these walks Taro was shot and kill by a guard for fear that he would try to escape. Hana was devastated by this. However, shortly after her husbands death, Hana was asked to leave the concentration camp and go back home to live with her daughter. But as she looked back at her husband’s grave, she knew she couldn’t leave until she was able to take Taro home with her. So, Hana told her daughter told her no and started the long walk back to her barrack, all of a sudden a cry rang out. It was Kiku, she had come to live with her.

aced many struggles through the 1900's. With the bombing of Pear Harbor and the discriminations of Japanese men a

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