Though Kiku doesn’t exert her will on the past, Hughes centers that powerlessness to create a compelling story about an oft-overlooked period of U.S. Part fiction part autobiography, through gorgeous illustration and smooth color pallete, this graphic novel centers around Japanese and Japanese Americans who. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to. Art features straightforward linework with full-color, often spare backgrounds that focus on characters. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmothers experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Through Kiku, readers learn key details about this moment in history, among them the murder of James Wakasa and the further relocation of people who voted, in a loyalty questionnaire, against serving in the U.S. She struggles over whether to introduce herself and manages to cope with the help of fellow prisoners Aiko Mifune and love-interest May Ide. Later, pulled from her Seattle home during the Trump Muslim ban, Kiku spends more than a year interned as a Japanese prisoner alongside her then-living maternal grandmother. On a trip to San Francisco with her mother, an ephemeral fog transports Kiku from the site of her maternal grandmother’s childhood home to the past. At her most recent displacement, she stayed for months and was placed in a room adjacent to where her own grandmother, still a child at this point, was housed. Japanese American Kiku Hughes, 16, feels disconnected from her Japanese heritage, and she knows little about her family’s history, which includes internment in Utah’s Topaz Relocation Center. Mixing fact and fiction in this autobiographical graphic novel, debut author Hughes follows a teen experiencing Japanese internment firsthand through time travel to the WWII era.

Displacement by kiku hughes