[LM_NET] SHARE: Sacramento area -- invitation to book launch party

[Ken Umbach <ken@UMBACHCONSULTING.COM>]

Hi, folks . . .

A great book is to be "launched" at a publisher-sponsored party in Ranch 
Cordova, just east of Sacramento, CA, on Saturday, September 8th. The 
author, Kiyo Sato, has, along with her colleagues in the local Nisei post 
of the VFW, has spoken to many school classes and assemblies over the last 
twenty years or so, on the topic of the WW II Internment of some 120,000 
Japanese Americans and related civil liberties issues. She is probably 
known to some on this list in the region as a result of those speaking 
engagements.  The book is her memoir, Dandelion Through the Crack: the Sato 
Family Quest for the American Dream (Nevada City, CA: Willow Valley Press, 
2007). It is a beautiful book, fundamentally a story of family and of 
becoming American, of overcoming adversity and seeking the American Dream. 
It is extraordinary as both literature and history. I have worked, pro 
bono, for nearly two and a half years to help it reach publication. (After 
a half-dozen readings, I still find it entrancing.)

For more information and an excerpt from the book:
Article by Sacramento Bee columnist Anita Creamer:
<http://www.sacbee.com/creamer/story/235673.html>http://www.sacbee.com/creamer/story/235673.html
 

Book excerpt (first chapter):
<http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/235669.html>http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/235669.html
 

A very fine review appeared recently in Nichi Bei Times:

http://www.nichibeitimes.com/articles/artsent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1186093560&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3

Here are the party details (it is open to the public, so consider 
yourselves invited):

    Giant book launch party!
    Saturday, September 8, 2007, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
    Rancho Cordova Community Center, Bldg. # 2
    2197 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
    (Also see the "Events" page of www.DandelionThroughTheCrack.com for a 
link to a map.)

My own formal review, including links to Internment and 
civil-liberties-related issues and selected related curriculum guidelines, 
will be published in a few months.

Regards,

Ken

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Ken Umbach
Columnist, Knowledge Quest
Policy Analyst, California Research Bureau, California State Library
Writer, editor, researcher, consultant, www.umbachconsulting.com
916-733-2159 -- voice mail
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