Stealing HomeStealing Home

A family in a Wyoming camp copes with gossip amid the losses caused by their sudden removal and confinement. A World War II veteran reluctantly tells his granddaughter about his time overseas. A young boy acts as a translator between his mother and her doctor, trying and failing to convey the source of her pain. In her debut short story collection, Hashimoto brings us stories that trace the costs of war and internment as felt across generations of Japanese Americans, stories that are vital to our understanding of our past—and, urgently so, of our present. Her title, Stealing Home, is both an allusion to an American pastime, and a searing condemnation of its history of forced internment.