By Kevin J. Miyazaki.

This artist’s book, is both fictional and factual, inspired by The Book of Modern Homes, publishedby Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1940. The companys home catalogs, produced from 1908-1940, featured house models with names like The Cape Cod and included illustrations and upbeatdescriptions of home features. The catalog format provides a vehicle to to describe the specificliving conditions confronted by the Japanese Americans.

For this booklet, new architectural drawings were commissioned and powerful historic photographswere used from both the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Where testimonials wouldexist in the home catalogs, quotes by those incarcerated are used to describe the living conditionsthey endured.

The authors paternal family were incarcerated at both Tule Lake and Heart Mountain. Hisgrandfather was sent to Department of Justice camps in Montana and New Mexico.

Paper: 24 pp.