Becoming Us: Travelers on the Jimmy Come Lately Road

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Judy Bordeaux's memoir is a classic American tale of immigration from Japan and Sweden and migration across the Western plains. After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Wally Akahoshi, a Seattle resident and US citizen, and his Caucasian wife Doris are faced with the possibility of internment. Judy Bordeaux's memoir of four generations of an American family tells of the pioneer great-grandmother who crossed the Plains, deprivation and hunger in the Pacific Northwest during the Depression, the family decision to hide their ethnicity during World War II, and the experiences and life-changing events that shaped her own growth as a parent, teacher, librarian and storyteller.

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Judy Bordeaux was not a quiet librarian. She was outspoken about the causes she believed in, including injustices that had affected her family in the past, and others that she saw in the world today. She retired to the Cascade foothills east of Seattle after 37 years as public school librarian and teacher. Her first book, The House on Sylvia Street: 30 years, 300 medically fragile foster children, and a whole lot of sock monkeys was published by Cloud Ridge Press in 2014. She sang for many years in Seattle Women's Chorus and was the delighted mother of two and grandmother of four