Two contemporary Japanese American authors whose elder kin were incarcerated in the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah during World War II address the issue in ambitious new books, offering glimpses into the traumatic episode as well as family life in its wake.Christine Kitano in her second book of poetry, "Sky Country," and novelist Karen Tei Yamashita in her memoir project, "Letters to Memory," draw upon a broad range of archival and autobiographical material in approaching the matter as younger relatives of those unjustly detained.(Photo courtesy of Asian American Writers' Workshop)"It …READ FULL ARTICLE
