No-No Boy by John Okada

No-No Boy by John Okada

Published by Charles E. Tutlles 1957 260 pages
Review by Anabel
Marshall Alternative Program
Spring 2008
Have you ever been in the situation where you had to go to war against your own culture and maybe having to fight one of your family members?!!!
Well, this is a book about a guy named Ichiro who had to join the army. Ichiro and his mom and dad were originally from Japan but moved to America to save a bunch of money and eventually move back to Japan. They lived in America for 30 years and their plans to move back to Japan didn’t seem too realistic but they still continued to dream about it. His mother was very traditional and would not allow him to join the army, so he was sent to jail for 2 years.
I recommend this book for people 15, 16, or 17 and up. It is definitely more of an older reading group. It was hard for me to understand. To me this book was kind of slow. It was an ok book though.