NYT+USA Today Bestselling Author Autumn Krause joins us!

Oh, my goodness.

First of all, I was so moved to hear about your grandparents and that we have that in common.

For my family, so my grandpa, he was a boy at the time.

My great-grandparents were incarcerated along with my great-great-grandparents.

And my great-grandpa fought in the 442nd while his family was incarcerated back home.

And my great grandma actually even gave birth and camp to one of my great uncles.

And that was my grandpa's side, but this actually affected both sides of my family because if you're up to one 16th Japanese, you went to the camps.

So on my Nana's side, which is Mexican and Japanese, A lot of my great aunts and my great uncle were incarcerated as well.

In the book, I have a family that represents them, too, on that side as well.

But this was a very widespread, far-reaching event.

My family having it affect both sides, both my grandpa's side and my nana's side.

Yeah.

You know, um, my,

it's just, it's such a, I think, you know, for so many families that, that have this in their history, it's just, uh, so much a part of the fabric of your family and you don't, you know, I mean, my, uh, it's interesting cause my grandparents, my grandfather, um, his older sisters were, um, nurses in the army.

So they they were nurses and they were while their family was interned, they were helping soldiers.

They were, you know, it's absolutely that irony.

And I think, you know, my grandfather just never wanted to talk about it.

And then my my grandmother wanted to talk about it.

And there was just this.

you know constant you know uh push and pull about what what was going on what was happening and i don't know about you but in my i grew up in texas and that's where my family my grandparents relocated after the war they didn't go back to california they they went to texas they just sort of you know felt like they needed to go somewhere else Yeah, fresh

start.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And I think in growing up in my history classes, I always felt like I was the one who was like, oh, by the way, this happened.

Oh, we need to talk about it.