Author Gordon Nagai shares his family's story of incarceration during WWII.
Beginning with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Two Faces tells the gripping tale of a cross-racial friendship that endured the incarceration of Japanese immigrants during World War II. The novel is inspired by the real-life tale of the two authors, who first met in high school through the Methodist Youth Fellowship.
Gordon Hideaki Nagai and his family were forced to leave their family-owned farm just outside Atwater, California and spent most of World War II in a concentration camp in Colorado before being allowed to return home.
About the Author:
Gordon graduated in the Livingston High School class of 1956. He was a student-athlete being a member of the junior varsity football team as a running back, and on the track and field team competing in several running and jumping events. He served as the senior class president.
Upon graduation he attended one year at Fresno State College, then transferred to the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated with a Master of Social Welfare degree in 1963. He served two years of alternative service in lieu of military service as a conscientious objector, then worked 37 years with several social service agencies. He retired in 2000 following a serious heart attack and currently lives in Eugene, Oregon close to his children and grandchildren.
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