Hughes ties our current political world directly to that of the camps, showing how racist policies make “solutions” like internment camps more likely to happen. When Kiku is stuck in time, readers get to experience the full horror of the internment camps and what our country did to Japanese-Americans.
She takes the sensibilities of a modern teen and allows readers to see the world through Kiku’s eyes. Hughes uses a dynamic mix of modern and historical in this graphic novel. As Kiku witnesses and actually lives the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps, seeing how they suffered, the restrictions, the injustice but also the communities that were formed in the camps. She lives near her grandmother, but can’t bring herself to actually meet her face to face. But then Kiku finds herself back in time for a longer period as she experiences the internment camps herself. It happens again the next morning, when Kiku finds herself joining the line of Japanese-American people heading for the internment camps.
As the mists form around her, she finds herself watching her grandmother play her violin as a teen. Kiku is vacationing with her mother in San Francisco, when she first travels through time back to World War II. This historical graphic novel takes a modern-day teen and puts her back in time.
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