Date
Event Time
12:00 PM
Cost
FREE
Location
ONLINE
Event Details
Thursday, July 10, 2025
12:00pm - 12:45pm PT
Discover the true story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American incarceration camp during World War II.
Join us for a powerful conversation with author Tracy Slater and Lunar Collective Fellow Daniel Tam-Claiborne about Slater’s new book, Together in Manzanar, the little-known true story of a Japanese Jewish family imprisoned in an American incarceration camp during World War II. In 1942, Elaine Yoneda made the radical decision to join her Japanese American husband and their young son behind barbed wire at Manzanar, one of the U.S. government’s ten incarceration camps. Together in Manzanar tells the gripping and emotional story of a family torn between freedom and loyalty, identity and survival. Slater brings to life the Yoneda’s remarkable courage and conviction as they fought to stay together and live by their values in a country that had turned against them.
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Tracy Slater’s essays and articles have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, among other places. Her first book, the memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self and Home on the Far Side of the World, was published in 2015, and received many recognitions including an Amazon Editor’s Pick in Best Biographies and Memoirs, and one of PopSugar’s best books of 2015. Her latest nonfiction book—Together in Manzanar, is forthcoming in July 2025.
Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial author, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. He serves as Deputy Director at The Serica Initiative, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of the Asian diaspora in America through dialogue, storytelling, and the power of convening. Daniel co-produced the digital documentary series be/longing: Asian Americans Now and Between Black and White: Asian Americans Speak Out.