In addition to his daily worries, he must reconcile the disgrace he suffers from the surprise bombing with the pride he has in his heritage, a pride that he feels more keenly now that his father and grandfather are no longer there to preserve it for him. Alone with his mother and five-year-old sister, Tomi must become the man of the family, despite his own fear. Tomi's grandfather, a harmless old man, is taken away. His gentle, fisherman father is imprisoned, his boat sunk. The change is, of course, dramatic-from a carefree, if poor, 12-year-old schoolboy, Tomi becomes an enemy in the eyes of his neighbors. Salisbury (Blue Skin of the Sea, 1992) traces the life of Tomikazu Nakaji, a Japanese-American boy in Hawaii, from just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor to immediately following it.
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