Join us for A More Perfect Union Book Discussion, with facilitators Joe Shepherd, Rachel Anger, and Jacob Fetter. The discussion will be held on Thursday, March 24  from 6:00 – 7:00pm, and if you're attending in in person, we will be meeting in the Applegate Room. We will be discussing the graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. Free copies are available for those that register and will be available at the Upper Customer Service Desk. The digital version is available on Hoopla with your library card. Please register here and we will email you a link to join our discussion on Zoom, or we will see you downstairs in the Applegate Room! 

Synopsis:

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.