The Block Manager

A True Story of Love in the Midst of Japanese American Internment Camps

By: Judy Mundle

Narrated by: Micah Kobayashi

The Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American-born child of Japanese immigrants. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Janet's life in California was uprooted when thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast - including Janet's family - were forced into internment camps.

Because of her brilliant command of English and Japanese, she was assigned the job of block manager. Janet was shuffled between three camps, got married, and had a child while the war raged on. After enduring the psychological strain of forced incarceration, her very survival was threatened when she joined her husband in post-war Japan as famine gripped the country. Janet remained an American patriot through all her ordeals, holding on to the dream of reuniting with her family in the US.

The Block Manager beautifully captures the uncertainty surrounding the internment camps and the gaman — patience with dignity — of the detainees.

©2019 Judy Mundle (P)2020 Judy Mundle

Wonderfully written and beautifully read story.

I enjoyed this book very much. It was wonderfully written and beautifully read. I learned a great deal about what the Japanese people in America went through during WW2 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It provided a great deal to think about and learn from since it was from a perspective that I had not read about before.

Great book

The Block Manager is a great book. It's a story of a woman surviving a WWII Japanese internment camp and aftermath with grace and resilience. Janet Hayashi proves your life does not have to be defined by events, but by how you handle them. As well as an inspiring story, I learned so much about the war that I hadn't heard before. The narrator, Micah Kobayash,i did an excellent job telling Janet's story. I highly recommend this book.

History

I learned more about how the Japanese lived during WWII. Very interesting how she told her story.