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DESCRIPTION:Join &lt;strong&gt;Naomi Hirahara&lt;/strong&gt;\, Edgar Award-winning aut
 hor of &lt;em&gt;Clark and Division&lt;/em&gt;\, for a virtual conversation and Q&amp;amp
 \;A on blending history and fiction in this powerful new mystery.\n\n&lt;em&gt;A
 bout the Book:&lt;/em&gt;\n\nChicago\, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her par
 ents have just been released from Manzanar\, where they have been detained
  by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor\, together with 
 thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos wer
 e forced to leave behind is gone\; instead\, they are being resettled two 
 thousand miles away in Chicago\, where Aki’s older sister\, Rose\, was s
 ent months earlier and moved to the new Japanese American neighborhood nea
 r Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family’s reunion
 \, Rose is killed by a subway train.\n\nAki\, who worshipped her sister\, 
 is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose’s death a suicide. Aki cannot beli
 eve her perfect\, polished\, and optimistic sister would end her life. Her
  instinct tells her there is much more to the story\, and she knows she is
  the only person who could ever learn the truth.\n\nInspired by historical
  events\, &lt;em&gt;Clark and Division&lt;/em&gt; infuses an atmospheric and heartbr
 eakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately w
 rought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty years of re
 search and archival work in Japanese American history.\n\n&lt;em&gt;Clark and Di
 vision&lt;/em&gt; will be available at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://janmstore.com/&quot;&gt;JA
 NM Store&lt;/a&gt; starting August 3. Signed copies will be available.\n\n&lt;a hr
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 et-and-greet-naomi-hirahara&quot;&gt;JANM Members are invited to join us for a vir
 tual meet-and-greet before this program at 1 p.m. (PDT)&lt;/a&gt; RSVPs are se
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SUMMARY:Author Discussion—Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
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