courtky10
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Post by courtky10 on May 2, 2011 17:42:47 GMT -5
Hi!  A few days ago, I posted to the BSC community at LiveJournal and asked which BSC books Japanese-American internment camps were mentioned in. A few people commented and told me that the book I was thinking of was Keep Out, Claudia!, and that Pearl Harbor is also featured in Aloha, Babysitters. So... I checked both of those books, and the people who commented were right, but I'm specifically wanting to know if *Mimi* (or Mimi's husband?) was sent to one of the camps. So... are there any other books that talk about this? Or am I overlooking something? I could have sworn I read somewhere (yearss ago) that Mimi was at one of the camps, but I could just be making that up. I can't find it anywhere, and it's been awhile since I've really devoted a lot of my time to rereading the series. I mainly just go back to reread my favorites every now and then! I'd also appreciate it if anyone knows of any books that contain a lot of information about the Kishis' backstory. I'm writing a fic about Mimi for babysitters100 at LiveJournal, but I obviously have some heavy researching to do first! Sorry if this has been previously discussed somewhere. |
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Post by booboobrewer on May 2, 2011 20:01:54 GMT -5
No, I don't believe Mimi or her husband were ever in camps...
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courtky10
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Post by courtky10 on May 2, 2011 21:23:47 GMT -5
Thanks! I really don't know why I kept thinking that.  |
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Post by greer on May 2, 2011 22:18:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure when Mimi immigrated--it could have been after the war. Sometimes it seems like Mr. and Mrs. Kishi were born in Japan, sometimes the US. I guess it depends on the ghostwriter.
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Post by zoar3 on May 2, 2011 22:35:19 GMT -5
I thought Mimi (and her husband)? came to the US when she (they)? were 32 years old? Were we ever told her husband's name and when he passed away? As I type that I am remembering Claudia saying Mimi came to live with her family after Janine was born. I don't think her husband came too so he probably was already gone.
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Post by anzuhana on May 3, 2011 9:58:45 GMT -5
^ I don't think the books said anything about Mimi's husband.
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Post by u4me on May 3, 2011 13:31:29 GMT -5
I thought I read someone where that Mimi and her husband came to the US, too. It seems like I read it recently. I read Claudia Kishi, Live From WSTO recently. I wonder if that's the book I read it in.
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Post by zoar3 on May 3, 2011 17:36:00 GMT -5
^I thought it was in an early book, though it probably was in more than one.
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Post by courtky10 on May 3, 2011 19:10:38 GMT -5
I thought Mimi (and her husband)? came to the US when she (they)? were 32 years old? Were we ever told her husband's name and when he passed away? As I type that I am remembering Claudia saying Mimi came to live with her family after Janine was born. I don't think her husband came too so he probably was already gone. I just checked, and what you're talking about was mentioned in Claudia and the Sad Goodbye. Do we know how old Mimi was when she died? I'd always imagined her to be in her 80s or so, but I don't remember ever reading anything about her age. But if she was 32 when she first came to the US, and the Japanese-American internment camps were in effect in the early 1940s, then I think there is a really good chance that she was in the US then. (But the timewarp in the BSC fandom seriously screws with my brain sometimes.  ) |
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Post by u4me on May 3, 2011 19:26:33 GMT -5
I read that book recently, too, so I guess I confused that and Live from WSTO. Whoopsie. |
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Post by zoar3 on May 3, 2011 20:03:37 GMT -5
:/ I certainly hope Mimi wasn't in the camps. I would think if she had been it would have been mentioned in Aloha or even in the book about the Lowells when Claudia, her Dad, and Janine talk about racism. As for Mimi's age when she died...that does indeed make my heart hurt and head spin. :/ We never were told at what age Rioko came to the US, were we? For some reason I always thought Mimi was younger than 80. But then I didn't want either Ann or the Ghosties to have the "added excuse" that she was older....
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Post by lilafowler on May 3, 2011 20:32:14 GMT -5
Were we ever told that Mimi lived anywhere in America besides Stoneybrook? I'm positive the only BSC reference to Japanese-American internment is in Keep Out, Claudia!, but if we have no reason to believe Mimi could have lived in the western United States then it is highly unlikely she ever spent time in an internment camp.
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Post by courtky10 on May 3, 2011 22:20:30 GMT -5
^ Not that I know of. For some bizarre reason, I was just thinking that one of the books talked about her being in one of the camps. Like I said... I really need to do some rereading. :/ Someone on the BSC community at LJ did comment and say that there is a book in which it is mentioned that Mimi always got tight-lipped when the war was mentioned, so that's probably what I was thinking of. ETA: Typing fail! |
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Post by zoar3 on May 3, 2011 22:40:45 GMT -5
^I thought that was in Aloha? It has been forever since I read that SS.
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A few days ago, I posted to the BSC community at LiveJournal and asked which BSC books Japanese-American internment camps were mentioned in. A few people commented and told me that the book I was thinking of was Keep Out, Claudia!, and that Pearl Harbor is also featured in Aloha, Babysitters. So... I checked both of those books, and the people who commented were right, but I'm specifically wanting to know if *Mimi* (or Mimi's husband?) was sent to one of the camps.
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