Within These Lines Audiobook (Free)

“Within These Lines is a moving tale of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book acquired me captivated!” -Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The Peculiars

Evalina Cassano’s life within an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and regular … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the child of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is unlawful in California, Evalina and about Within These Lines Taichi vow they’ll find a way to be together. But anti-Japanese feelings erupt in the united states after the strike on Pearl Harbor, and Taichi and his family are forced to give up their farm and are incarcerated inside a Japanese internment camp.

Degrading treatment at Manzanar Relocation Center is indeed difficult, Taichi questions he’ll ever leave the camp alive. Treasured words from Evalina are his only connection to the outside globe. Embracing the boldest actions she can to help Taichi, Evalina begins to radically speak out at college and at home, glowing a light on this dark and shameful racial injustice.

Using their future together on the line, Evalina and Taichi can only just hold true to their values and have confidence in their love against all odds to have any hope of making it back again to one another.

Within These Lines is:

A historical YA novel collection against the setting of WWII and the shameful era of American injustice encircling Japanese internment campsTold from the dual points of view of an Italian-American girl and Japanese-American man brought together by love then separated by war, injustice, and hatredAs haunting and unflinching as it is hope-filled and love-drivenPerfect for followers of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein