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Green Makers explores the little-known history of Japanese American gardeners in Southern California during the past century. Equipped with only pickup trucks and lawnmowers, they faced discriminatory laws and even the forced removal from their homes during World War II. Yet they remained committed to their to make Southern California green for their families, ethnic community, and region. The book includes original writings, photographs, historic summaries, and a timeline spanning a hundred years.
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Author
Naomi Hirahara
Author · 22 books
Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar Award-winning author of multiple mystery series, noir short stories, nonfiction history books and one middle-grade novel. Her Mas Arai series, which features a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes, has been translated into Japanese, French and Korean. Her two other series star a young mixed race female LAPD bicycle cop, Ellie Rush, and a Filipina-Japanese American woman in Kauai, Lellani Santiago. Her first historical mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, will be released by Soho Crime in August 2021. She, her husband and Jack Russell dog live happily in her birthplace of Pasadena, California.
