Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit
                          by Diana Morita Cole, Award-Winning Author

Design by Arnold Hidaka

                                                                                                                     
Diaspora Press announces the publication and launch of Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit, the story of Diana Morita Cole's birth in Minidoka, an Idaho concentration camp, during World War II and her family's subsequent displacement to Chicago. The book chronicles her adventures in the famed ghetto called Clark and Division.

In the Windy City, she meets William Minoru Hohri, who launches a class action suit against the US government for the wrongful incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, and Iva Toguri, who was imprisoned and wrongfully identified as "Tokyo Rose."

The postscript to Sideways is dedicated to the diaspora of Japanese Canadians with special reference to Roy Miki's birth. 

Sideways is included in the permanent collections of the Nikkei National Museum, the Japanese American National Library, the National Diet Library of Japan, and the Legislative Library of British Columbia.

For book purchases, contact [email protected] or see Purchase Sideways on this website.

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