Mina added it. Then she added Lillian’s email address to the contributors’ page: “Thank you, Lillian. Your grandfather’s words are free forever.”
“My grandmother is 84. She grew up in Manzanar. She wants to read Mine Okubo’s ‘Citizen 13660’ but she can’t see the print in the library copy. Do you have a large-print scan?” read asian americans and asians in america online free
She froze. Not because she didn’t know any. But because the ones she’d found were either $120 textbooks or out of print for thirty years. The public library had one copy of The Gangster We Are All Looking For —and it was missing. Mina added it
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But the Shelf had enemies.
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