In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nineyear-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live. Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, people are angry, and one night, Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends.

What Sachiko and Nobu do not know is that Terrence's family had received a telegram that morning with...

DOLL IN THE RED KIMONO is a compilation of entries from two of Jan Morrill's blogs, TheRedKimono.com and JanMorrill.wordpress.com. The essays will take readers on the path to publication of her historical fiction, THE RED KIMONO. (University of Arkansas Press, February 2013) In more than sixty essays, Jan shares the challenges of becoming published, as well as memories of her family history and how they led to the story of her characters, Sachi, Nobu and Terrence. In reflections of current events, she discusses similarities to the events of the 1940's and why it's important that history be...