White Road of Thorns

This book is a diary of Yamamoto Asako (pen name of Aoki Hisa) from the time of the outbreak of the war between the United States and Japan, her confinement at Santa Anita, and time at Gila Relocation Center, until her selection as a passenger on the Gripsholm for the second wartime exchange of nationals between the United States and Japan. She was living in Los Angeles when WWII broke out.