Tamiko Nimura’s A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake is an inventive memoir that explores how rejection from academia helped launch her into ancestral research, and ultimately a visit to the site of one of the worst Japanese American internment camps.
Due to loud construction noises in my home, I had to have this conversation with Tamiko Nimura, author of the new memoir A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake, in my bathroom with...