Our book club title for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month will be They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

This graphic novel from actor and activist George Takei recalls his childhood years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his future. Pick up a copy at the library, or read it on Hoopla.

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