title: Miyoko & Other Stories
author: Michelle Tudor
description: Michelle Tudor is a writer from England. She is an English Literature and Creative Writing graduate, whose work has been published online (Asian Cha, The Brasilia Review, Literati, Little River and others), as well as in two print anthologies (Tell Me a Tale, Inspired by My Museum). You can find more of her writing on her site: michelletudor.com
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  _**In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice**_
  
  Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs
  rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are
  ripped from their home, rounded up—along with thousands of other innocent
  Japanese-Americans—and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.
  
  Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the
  harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every
  corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined
  and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks.
  Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever...and spur her to
  sins of her own.
  
  Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen
  innocence and survival that echoes through generations, reverberating between
  mothers and daughters. It is a moving chronicle of injustice, triu