The Secret Of The Nightingale Palace - Plot & Excerpts
People of Japanese descent, most of whom were U.S. citizens, were told to pack up their things and report to receiving centers, from which they would later be relocated to more permanent quarters in internment camps. The Nakamura family congregated on the morning of February twenty-fourth on Post Street between Buchanan and Sutter. Henry and his new wife arrived by taxi with his mother and Mayumi. They had three trunks between them, plus a couple of duffels full of sheets, towels, and other dull but necessary household items, which took up an infuriating amount of space. Henry’s father had remained at the house in Golden Gate Park for another hour or so. He had been wandering through the gardens all night. “I see no need to rush,” he said. By that evening, they would be living in temporary housing at the Tanforan Racetrack, just outside the city. “We will have nothing to do when we get there, in any case.” Henry didn’t argue with his father. He merely instructed him to meet the rest of the family at Uncle Aki’s store, extracting a promise that the old man would show up.
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