![]() ![]() So there are a lot of hooks there that people can hang their hat on in terms of their own empathy. And it’s a father…I know that I’ve had kids call me up, write me letters about their fathers being alcoholics. It speaks to if you’re fat, if you were not pretty when you were young, you know. You don’t have to be just Japanese, you know. You know, more people are reading it now because…I believe it’s because it’s accessible in that it speaks to a lot of people. ![]() And I will tell you, I just never…you just never thought that it would be, you know, nothing like the other books that we’ve worked on or that I’ve done or Jim’s done that we thought would be, “Oh boy this might be a bestseller” or something.īut Farewell to Manzanar isn’t necessarily a bestseller, but it’s just steady and it even sells more now. The Holocaust connects to Manzanar is because the people who put them into the camps took their rights away from them, and treated them like animals.They put up. ![]() It was kind of a conscious thing for them, or a conscious…we’re going to do this story. I don’t think that the publishers thought for a minute it ( Farewell to Manzanar) would ever be made into a film. ![]()
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