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This has been my major project for the last few years. It's the story of a Japanese-American boy during WWII, and his unlikely friendship with a mischievous but friendly tanuki who is hiding from a secret in his past.
Naturally it's a tough combo writing about war, racism and internment camps and including shape-shifting raccoon-dogs, but at heart it's basically a friendship story. I'm hoping this is the year I really get it into workable shape and get ready to pitch it somewhere.
'Tanuki Stew' is my working title as of now. If I'm ever able to publish it I don't know if I'll be able to include my own illustrations, but for a cover the best I could think of was to show my two heroes sitting on a rooftop looking over the camp while they split a candy bar.
Naturally it's a tough combo writing about war, racism and internment camps and including shape-shifting raccoon-dogs, but at heart it's basically a friendship story. I'm hoping this is the year I really get it into workable shape and get ready to pitch it somewhere.
'Tanuki Stew' is my working title as of now. If I'm ever able to publish it I don't know if I'll be able to include my own illustrations, but for a cover the best I could think of was to show my two heroes sitting on a rooftop looking over the camp while they split a candy bar.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Tanuki
Size 900 x 1183px
File Size 428.8 kB
Listed in Folders
At first I thought the internment camp was the Capitol. Whoops... But yeah, I first heard about this incident in history when I read the historical fiction(?) novel The Moon Bridge, named after the famous bridge in San Francisco's "Chinese" Gardens, back in elementary school. Fun fact: Before Pearl Harbor the Chinese Gardens in San Francisco were known as the Japanese Gardens, so we might also have Pearl Harbor to blame for the myth of fortune cookies being Chinese in origin.
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