The Farewell to Manzanar book is based on a true story of one Japanese American family's attempt to survive forced detention, and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. Seen through the eyes of a child, the story of a Japanese-American family' Sonlight resource: https://www.sonlight.com/products/farewell-to-manzanar-book