This is the first book I've read about the Japanese internment camps. Wow, it's so hard to know that this happened in our own country. This is an emotional story with a couple surprise twists and turns thrown in!

With the focus on the treatment of Japanese-Americans, this book about a 14 year old living in Los Angeles has renewed appeal. It is still in print.

I hadn't expected to be so engrossed in Garden of Stones but Sophie Littlefield masterfully combines mystery with historical details and takes us back to California, Washington State and the Manzanar prison camp during the time of Japanese American interment. We get to know Lucy as a young girl and her learn of her mysterious and glamorous mother, and are soon caught up in the tragedies that seem to follow Miyako. Carefully plotted, well crafted, and told with sympathy, the story of Lucy, Miyako and their fellow Japanese Americans will move you deeply.

ISBN-10: 0778313522 - Paperback $14.95
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA; Original edition (February 26, 2013), 320 pages.
Review copy courtesy of the publisher and NetGalley.

This book started out slowly but definitely got gripping and I couldn't put it down. Beautiful cover too. What an amazing story.