Dandelion Through the Crack

The genealogical autobiography of a Japanese immigrant family
from 1911 into the twentieth century.

by Kiyo Sato

TANPOPO YA IKU HI FUMARETE KYOH NO HANA

Dandelion How often have you been stepped upon? Today you bloom

Dandelion Through the Crack tells of a family formed both by ancestry and by the American way of life. Interwoven throughout are the haiku of the author’s father and his wise fables, drawn from his old and new homelands.

Dr. Kevin Starr, Professor of History, University of Southern California, said of the book: “It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being favorably compared to Farewell to Manzanar. I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen-like austerity highly enough.”

Steve LaRosa, Public Television Producer at KVIE in Sacramento, California, says, "This is an important story that should be told and retold to future generations because history has shown that it only takes a generation to forget.  Kiyo tells the story with great insight, heart, and humanity."

SATO, Kiyo  --  398 Pages (HB)                                                $ 29.95