{"product_id":"secret-harvests-by-david-mas-masumoto-9781636280776","title":"Secret Harvests","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI discover a \u003cem\u003elost\u003c\/em\u003e aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a \"ward\" of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive? Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family to forge forward in a land that did not want them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI am haunted and driven to explore my identity and the meaning of family—especially as farmers tied to the land. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the earth that we work and a sense of place that defines us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845738746092,"sku":"9781636280776","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15969463482770.jpg?v=1758892015","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/secret-harvests-by-david-mas-masumoto-9781636280776","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}