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No-No Boy by John Okada; Karen Tei Yamashita is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is No-No Boy about?

The First Japanese American Novel: A Powerful, Radical Testament To The Experiences Of Japanese American Draft Resisters In The Wake Of World War Ii A Penguin Classic After Their Forcible Relocation To Internment Camps During World War Ii, Japanese Americans Were Expected To Go On With Their Lives As Though Nothing Had Happened, Assimilating As Well As They Could In A Changed America. But Some Men Resisted. They Became Known As No-no Boys, For Twice Having Answered No On A Compulsory Government Survey Asking Whether They Were Willing To Serve In The U.s. Armed Forces And To Swear Allegiance To The United States. No-no Boy Tells The Story Of One Such Draft Resister, Ichiro Yamada, Whose Refusal To Comply With The U.s. Government Earns Him Two Years In Prison And The Disapproval Of His Family And Community In Seattle. A Touchstone Of The Immigrant Experience In America, It Dispels The Model Minority Myth And Asks Pointed Questions About Assimilation, Identity, And Loyalty. Celebrate Asian American And Pacific Islander (aapi) Heritage Month With These Three Other Penguin Classics: America Is In The Heart By Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West By Younghill Kang (9780143134305

Who reads No-No Boy?

Author

John Okada; Karen Tei Yamashita

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143134015

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13