American Sutra: Hero of the legendary trout (John Nomura)

Our own John Nomura was born in the Japanese Internment Camps during WWII, so it's no wonder he was greatly moved by American Sutra, a history of Buddhism in the Internment Camps. What was meant to be a sort of book report became a weaving narrative between stories from the book, first person experiences and stories from his family, covering themes of a resilient people who refused to relinquish their dignity, personal protests and the relentless pursuit of mythological trout by sneaking out of the camps in the dead of night. It was a time when Americans turned against Americans and immigrants in a witch hunt whipped up by a paranoid government.  Sounded all too familiar...