• Part I
• Starting from Loomis 9
• My Parents 25
• Sacramento Nihonmachi 27
• Nihongo Gakko: Japanese-Language School 31
• Bento 37
• Three Spanish Girls 41
• Dominguez 43
• I Will Go and Return 51
• After Supper 57
• New Year's Eve, 1940 61
• Papa's Hat 67
• Part II
• Little Theater in Camp 81
• Starting from Loomis ... Again 87
• Swimming in the American 91
• Tuberculosis in Our Family 95
• Summer Job at Mount Baldy 101
• Nisei Experimental Group and Later 107
• Career as a Librarian 113
• Barracuda and Other Fish 119
• Tule Lake Revisited 133
• What It Means to Be Nisei 137
• The Funeral 143
• Birth Certificate Story 153
• Live Oak Store 157
• No Brakes 161.

"A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, mysteries, and choices--the things in his life that he cannot forget--that have made him who he is. Central to this collection are Kashiwagi's confinement at Tule Lake during World War II, his choice to answer "no" and "no" to questions 27 and 28 on the official government loyalty questionnaire, and the resulting lifelong stigma of being labeled a "No-No Boy" after his years of incarceration. His nonlinear, multifaceted writing not only reflects the fragmentations of memory induced by traumas of racism, forced removal, and imprisonment but also can be read as a bold personal response to the impossible conditions he and other Nisei faced throughout their lifetimes"-- Provided by publisher.

• The plums can wait
• Live Oak Store
• Laughter and false teeth
• Kisa Gotami
• Mondai wa Akira
• Blessed be
• A window for Aya
• Issei woman
• The betrayed.

"The book gathers together plays that chronicle the experiences of Japanese Americans from the hardships of the Depression of the 1930s, through the bitterness and dislocation of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, through the rise of Asian American consciousness and pride in the late 1960s and 1970s to today" -- provided by publisher.

• v. 1. 1902-1941, I, too, sing America
• v. 2. 1941-1967, I dream a world.

After being accused of a multi-million-dollar stock swindle, Alfred Doolittle Hannah dies in an apparent suicide, but First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt suspects murder.

• [1] The start, 1904-1930.
• v. 2. A memoir of a life and the times
• v. 3. A native's return.