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No-No Boy is a 1957 novel, and the only novel published by the Japanese American writer John Okada. It tells the story of a Japanese-American in the ...
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No-No Boy

No-No Boy

Novel by John Okada
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No-No Boy is a 1957 novel, and the only novel published by the Japanese American writer John Okada. It tells the story of a Japanese-American in the aftermath of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1957
Author: John Okada
Pages: 260
Set in: Seattle, Washington (1946)

The novel opens as Ichiro, a no-no boy and second-generation Japanese American man, returns home to Seattle. World War II has just ended, and Ichiro is free ...