Author Pamela Sakamoto to speak at Gibson’s
History buffs, listen up.
On Tuesday, July 25, author Pamela Sakamoto will visit Gibson’s Bookstore all the way from Honolulu to present Midnight in Broad Daylight. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is the true story of a Japanese-American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II. An epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss and redemption, this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America.
After their father’s death, Harry, Frank and Pierce Fukuhara – all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest – moved to Hiroshima, their mother’s ancestral home. Eager to go back to America, Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Harry was sent to an internment camp until a call came for Japanese translators, and he dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers, Frank and Pierce, became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army.
As the war raged on, Harry, one of the finest bilingual interpreters in the United States Army, island-hopped across the Pacific, moving ever closer to the enemy – and to his younger brothers.
Alternating between the American and Japanese perspectives, Midnight in Broad Daylight captures the uncertainty and intensity of those charged with the fighting, as well as the deteriorating home front of Hiroshima – as never told before in English – and provides a fresh look at the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
Sakamoto will be at Gibson’s starting at 5:30 p.m., and admission is free and open to the public.
Insider staff
