Florence Crannell Means' The Moved-Outers (1945): a children's novel about the relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans written and published while the camps were still in operation. Based on the character names, I remember skimming through this in a bookstore at some point. I'm pretty sure I remember it as carefully researched (presumably meaning, at that point, reading newspaper articles, actually talking to people etc.) and a little didactic in that solemn way of the time, but it apparently did not grip me enough to take it home and reread it. Yoshiko Uchida's Journey to Topaz and Journey Home stuck with me more, as you say (the difference between "writing a story about an awful thing that happened" and "writing a story about people who, among other experiences, went through awful things"?). (Also I don't know if you know me, I hope you won't mind the random comment.)
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Based on the character names, I remember skimming through this in a bookstore at some point. I'm pretty sure I remember it as carefully researched (presumably meaning, at that point, reading newspaper articles, actually talking to people etc.) and a little didactic in that solemn way of the time, but it apparently did not grip me enough to take it home and reread it. Yoshiko Uchida's Journey to Topaz and Journey Home stuck with me more, as you say (the difference between "writing a story about an awful thing that happened" and "writing a story about people who, among other experiences, went through awful things"?).
(Also I don't know if you know me, I hope you won't mind the random comment.)