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Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled 2,000 miles away in Chicago, where Aki’s older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier and moved to the new Japanese American neighborhood near Clark and Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family’s reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train.

Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose’s death a suicide. Aki cannot believe her perfect, polished and optimistic sister would end her life. Her instinct tells her there is much more to the story, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth.

Inspired by historical events, CLARK AND DIVISION infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime fiction plot with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from 30 years of research and archival work in Japanese American history.

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

• Publication Date: June 28, 2022
• Genres: Fiction , Historical Fiction , Historical Mystery , Mystery
• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Soho Crime
• ISBN-10: 1641293691
• ISBN-13: 9781641293693

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Clark and Division

Written by Naomi Hirahara Review by K. M. Sandrick

Aki Ito and her parents come to Chicago in 1944, after being uprooted from their home in Tropico, California, incarcerated with thousands of other Japanese Americans at Manzanar following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and released by the War Relocation Authority to resettle in the Midwest. Just as they step off the train in Chicago’s Union Station, the Itos learn a devastating fact: Aki’s older sister Rose, sent ahead of the family as one of the first Nisei to go to Chicago, was killed the night before, run over by a subway train at the Clark and Division station.

Although authorities insist Rose’s death was an accident, Aki is suspicious. So she pieces together bits of information from Rose’s journal and talks with friends and acquaintances who are often reluctant to reveal details about Rose’s life, particularly in the days before her death. In the process she learns disturbing facts about what Rose and other Japanese women have been facing.

Clark and Division is rich in detail about the lives of relocated Japanese—the jobs they find, the places they live, the streets they walk, the people they encounter—and the city of Chicago and its neighborhoods in the 1940s. Nevertheless, the novel keeps the reader at a distance. Readers can observe what Aki sees and does, but may have difficulty connecting with her to feel what she feels and share in her experiences.

Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar award-winning author of the Mas Arai series, which features a survivor of the atom-bomb attack on Hiroshima who subsequently works as a gardener and does amateur sleuthing in Pasadena, California.

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Why You Should Read This: ‘Clark and Division’

Naomi Hirahara’s Chicago mystery novel is the California Book Club’s August 2023 selection.

Released in 2021, Clark and Division also has roots in World War II and California, although much of the action takes place in Chicago. Its central characters are members of the Ito family, who, after two years of incarceration at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, are given early release and move to the Midwest in 1944. Their history grew out of information Hirahara uncovered while working on her 2018 nonfiction book, Life After Manzanar , cowritten with Heather C. Lindquist. “When we were looking where people went from Manzanar,” she told the website CrimeReads in 2021, “Chicago was the top destination.”

As to how this came to be, Chicago was outside the deportation area. (Most camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated were in California and the rural West.) The Itos’ experience at Manzanar and their engagement with Japanese American communities both in California before the war and later in Illinois reveal the nuances of a history that, for a long time, was effectively erased. “Our periods, which used to occur at about the same time while we lived in [the Southern California town of] Tropico, disappeared altogether while we were in camp,” Aki Ito tells us; the family’s younger daughter, she is the novel’s narrator. She also plays the role of detective after her older sister, Rose, is struck by a subway train. Although the death appears to be a suicide, Aki believes something sinister was involved.

There’s a tradition in crime fiction of the amateur sleuth: civilians who like to trade in favors, who solve cases (or attempt to) for reasons of their own. Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins is one example. Aki is another. Her interest is personal, a matter of family obligation. But it also leads to a cultural reckoning. Like many of the novel’s characters, Aki carries the weight of trauma; it’s no stretch for her to imagine a similar trauma may have had something to do with her sister’s death. As she investigates, she finds herself drawn ever more deeply into both the Issei and the Nisei communities of Chicago as well as that of recently relocated Japanese Americans. This is a floating world of sorts, with everything out of place and nothing settled. In that sense, it is representative not only of its moment but also of the one in which we currently find ourselves.•

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By Naomi Hirahara Soho Crime: 312 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.

Just as only James Ellroy could have written the Los Angeles Quartet and only Walter Mosley could have crafted Black Angelenos’ experiences into the Easy Rawlins mysteries, crime novelist and research maven Naomi Hirahara was destined to write “Clark and Division.”

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5:27 p.m. Aug. 3, 2021 An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of Newbery winner Cynthia Kadohata as Kadota.

“So much of my work has been informed by current events and little-known histories,” Hirahara says during a video call one warm summer morning. “While my earlier series involved cold cases where the past was dredged up to solve the current crime, ‘ Clark and Division ’ is actually my first real historical mystery.”

Out this week, “Clark and Division” spins a capacious crime saga out of a little-known historical episode — the resettlement of Japanese Americans interned during World War II from places like Los Angeles to the heart of Chicago.

Hirahara, an engaging presence with a sweep of graying dark hair and pink transparent eyeglass frames, spent a decade as a reporter and editor at the Rafu Shimpo , L.A.’s Japanese American daily newspaper , during the battle over redress and reparations for the government’s wartime concentration camps . In those years she also embarked on an award-winning seven-book series featuring Mas Arai , an issei (first-generation) Japanese gardener and Hiroshima survivor whose background is a tribute to her father. She followed up with another series featuring an LAPD bicycle cop .

Hirahara never stopped being a journalist, however, writing or co-writing eight nonfiction books on cultural history ranging from the floral markets of downtown L.A. to the Japanese American community that once thrived on Terminal Island . One of her collaborators was Heather C. Lindquist, an editor and developer of interpretive exhibits for the National Park Service. After working together on an exhibit, in 2018 they co-authored “ Life After Manzanar ,” a document of incarceration and resettlement that brought Hirahara back to long-simmering ideas.

Her enthusiasm bubbling through the screen, Hirahara asks if I want to see her PowerPoint deck explaining the foundations of “Clark and Division,” which she first developed for a writing workshop at Occidental College. “After I saw this beautiful PowerPoint [Newbery Award winner] Cynthia Kadohata showed during a joint book discussion, I thought it would be fun to look at the images.”

On one slide, her hand-drawn cartoon illustrates the city of Tropico , a once-thriving enclave nearly lost to history. “Maybe 30 years ago,” Hirahara recalls, “I interviewed a Japanese American physician in the San Fernando Valley who told me he grew up in Tropico, which I’d never heard of! Just that one fact, and how I loved the sound of that word, Tropico, stayed in the back of my mind.”

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Hirahara shares the fruits of the research that followed — photos of Japanese farmers from the early 20th century crouching in fields. Nestled between Glendale and what is now Atwater Village, Tropico was where many Japanese Angelenos first settled in the early 20th century. It became the home of the Itos, the family at the center of “Clark and Division”: Pop, who worked as a manager at a Japanese-owned produce distributor; Mom, a homemaker; older daughter Rose, an outspoken beauty; and her little sister, Aki, a Los Angeles City College student who considered herself second fiddle.

It was a solidly middle-class life, and it was severed when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. By March 1942, the family is shipped off to Manzanar War Relocation Center , some 200 miles north of Los Angeles. Rose, perceived as a “model minority” in the camp, is chosen to be among the first of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly resettled in Chicago. The Itos later follow.

A photo from the Bancroft Library served as inspiration for Hirahara: A resettled family looks with bewilderment at their lone suitcase, dropped unceremoniously in their new Chicago apartment. “In their official photos, the War Relocation Authority liked to present these images that Japanese were happy and smiling, very neat and respectable,” Hirahara says. “In my novel, I try to remove some of that sheen, that mask, not to deny that people participated in the official photos but that it wasn’t the whole story.”

The Itos thought their acclimation to Chicago would be easier because Rose had preceded them and found employment. But it was not so. The family arrives by train, only to learn Rose has been hit by a subway car at the Clark & Division station.

As Aki, now 20, determines to investigate her sister’s death, “Clark and Division” expands into a complex mystery , a coming-of-age romance and an absorbing look into a previously unexplored corner of American history. In its attention to the aftermath of internment, it is light-years ahead of crime novels like James Ellroy’s “ Perfidia ” or David Guterson’s “ Snow Falling on Cedars ,” which gloss over Japanese Americans’ experiences in favor of characterizations that flatten their humanity to suit the author’s needs. “Perfidia” in particular hits a nerve with Hirahara.

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“I appreciated Ellroy’s rhythm of language and the overall themes,” she says. “But let’s imagine the reality — the thick layer of oppression that prevented Japanese Americans from becoming public school teachers or police officers. How did people adjust, survive or even succeed in such a climate? That’s the more interesting examination, at least from my perspective.”

“Clark and Division” puts Japanese American characters at the center of the story — and the crime. To say more would diminish the joy of immersing oneself in Hirahara’s deeply felt, meticulously researched tale. Everything bears the heft of truth, from the description of Manzanar to the Ting-a-ling Candy Shop, a real store that once stood at the corner of Chicago’s Dearborn and Division streets.

Behind those descriptions, invisible to readers, are archival photos, family albums and ephemera, some of which Hirahara purchased on eBay. To the author, they opened up a world wider than any one story, which she describes as she moves through the slides of young men in zoot suits and pompadours. “All kinds of mostly young people were resettled in Chicago — from the camps, from Father Flanagan’s Boys Town in Nebraska, from orphanages like Manzanar’s Children’s Village . And despite the war, the internment camps and relocation, they wanted to live, to have fun and just be young.”

The vibrant characters, the history and the aura of determined optimism that permeate the novel make it feel like the beginning of a saga not unlike Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs mysteries. Hirahara seems surprised at the comparison; her ambitions are still more tentative. She first thought of “Clark and Division” as a stand-alone mystery. For all her research and travel, she said, “Because I don’t live there, I wondered: Could I adequately describe all the complexity of Chicago in the 1950s? I was much more confident writing about a confined neighborhood.”

Fans can relax: “Clark and Division” is the first of at least two books about the Ito family and their intrepid daughter Aki. “With the Mas Arai series, which went for seven books, I thought I was just writing one book and I said to myself, ‘Wow, this is interesting,’ and I just kept going,” Hirahara says. “So we’ll see what happens.”

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CLARK AND DIVISION

by Naomi Hirahara ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 3, 2021

An effective whodunit that’s also a sensitive coming-of-age story.

When a young Japanese American woman is murdered during World War II, her grieving younger sister turns sleuth to solve the crime.

As she tells it, the story of young Aki Ito’s family begins in Southern California in the 1920s. Mom emigrates from Japan in 1919 to marry Pop, who, starting as a farm laborer, rises to the post of market manager. Aki looks up to her elder sister, Rose, the star of the family. The bombing of Pearl Harbor changes everything for the family; they are sent to the Manzanar internment camp in 1942. Then, in June 1943, the War Relocation Authority recruits Rose to be one of the "loyal" nisei to move out of the camp and work in Chicago. Her boyfriend, Roy, follows a few months later. When the family is finally allowed to follow, they are greeted with the horrifying news that Rose is dead, killed by a subway train. Aki’s decision to uncover the truth about Rose’s death comes slowly. Hirahara immerses readers in this ignoble period in American history and in the family’s grief, presented from Aki’s wary, wide-eyed perspective. Learning that Rose had an abortion accelerates Aki's desire to know the truth. She’s unsettled even further when Rose’s death is ruled a suicide. Subsequent chapters begin with passages from Rose’s diary, providing a chilling backdrop to the truth that is gradually revealed. Getting a job at the Newberry Library puts Aki closer to the heart of the city and exposes her to the casual racism all around her. Roy’s failure to offer support and the fear and evasiveness of Rose’s roommate, Tomi Kawamura, only harden Aki’s determination to find answers. Her investigation becomes her rite of passage into adulthood.

Pub Date: Aug. 3, 2021

ISBN: 978-1-641-29249-8

Page Count: 312

Publisher: Soho Crime

Review Posted Online: June 1, 2021

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2021

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Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

• Publication Date: June 28, 2022
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CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara: Book Review

One of the most shameful episodes in American history is brought to life in the mystery Clark and Division .  Naomi Hirahara has taken the stories of the internment of thousands of Japanese-born and native-born Americans of Japanese ancestry following the Pearl Harbor attack and brilliantly woven it into a novel that will touch readers’ hearts as well as keep them guessing until the last page.

The Ito family has just been released from Manzanar, a “War Relocation Center” established by the United States government to house Japanese living in the States who are not eligible for citizenship.  Rose and Aki are teenagers born in the United States (Nisei) and are eligible for citizenship, but their parents, born in Japan (Issei), aren’t, so the entire family is sent to the center in 1942.

As the novel opens, Aki and her parents are set to join Rose in Chicago, where the War Relocation Authority has sent her, along with other Nisei, to help convince the public that Japanese born in America are loyal to the United States and not to the Empire of Japan.

When the three Itos arrive at Union Station, they’re surprised that Rose is not among the people waiting to greet them.  In the midst of the crowd is a young man they know from Manzanar.  He tells them, “There was an accident at the subway station last night,” and Aki immediately realizes that her beloved sister is dead.

At the coroner’s office the following morning, Aki is dealt a further blow.  She is told that Rose’s death was not an accident but suicide and that she recently had had an abortion.  Aki is devastated by the fact that her sister had had to go through the abortion alone, and she doesn’t believe she would have killed herself the day before her family was arriving in Chicago.  She determines to find out what really happened to Rose.

The book’s title refers to the subway station where Rose’s body was found, and it’s also Aki’s launching point in her investigation into her sister’s death.  Aki is fearless, traveling alone around the metropolitan area, talking to the police, fellow members of the established Japanese community, and recent Japanese arrivals from other internment camps to discover the truth.  She hears pieces of Rose’s story from members of each group, but it’s up to her to put them together to solve the mystery of her sister’s death.

Clark and Division is a fascinating and disturbing look into what was happening in the United States during World War II, the prejudices its government and its citizens held against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and the retaliation against immigrant and native-born Japanese alike.

Naomi Hirahara is the author of many novels, short stories, and biographies, and was formerly the editor of the Rafu Shimpo newspaper.  She also is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Edgar for the third mystery in her Mas Arai series, Snakeskin Shamishen .  You can read more about her at this website .

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I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general.

In Clark and Division , the Second World War is still being fought when Aki Ito’s sister, Rose, is released from Manzanar (the largest of the ten Japanese internment camps). Rose moves to Chicago for a fresh start, and the family plans to join her as soon as they can. However, when Aki and her parents arrive months later, they learn that Rose has been killed by a subway car. And when the police claim it was suicide, Aki sets out to prove that it wasn’t.

I’ve read several books that cover the incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, but I’ve never read one that focuses on the time just after that, when thousands of families had to deal with this further displacement. Often, families from California like the Itos didn’t return, but instead moved to cities like Chicago or Cleveland, and it was fascinating to read about the complexities of starting over like that.

I also liked Aki a lot. She’s determined not to let her life be ruled by the trauma done to her by the government, nor does she allow them to tell her what to think or do. However, some of her naivete surrounding how to function in Chicago gives her trouble sometimes. Overall, though, she’s kind and tenacious and an engaging character.

There are many other characters, and beyond Aki’s parents, her boyfriend, and a few close friends, they were kind of hard to keep track of sometimes. However, the main cast surrounding Aki were distinct and had pretty well fleshed out personalities of their own. I also liked seeing the glimpses into Rose’s life from her diary pages; it made her a character in her own right.

I was interested to follow the mystery of Rose’s death, especially as it explored some of the obstacles women (particularly women of Japanese descent) had to deal with at the time. The dealings with racism, sexism, and rigid gender roles are handled really well. Hirahara clearly did tons of research, and it shines.

The end of the book felt like it wrapped up somewhat quickly, but was still satisfying. I walked away from this book feeling more educated on this period of history, connected to the characters, and quite glad I read this. Overall, it’s an intriguing but not glamorous mystery that reads almost like a really cinematic memoir of a woman fighting the odds to bring justice to her sister in an unfair world.

Overall rating: 8.7/10

Clark and Division will be published on August 3rd, 2021!

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Caitlin Clark Odds, Picks vs. Storm: How to Bet Fever Rookie Today

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We're offering our best Caitlin Clark odds and player props for Fever vs. Storm based on the best  WNBA odds  ahead of Wednesday's contest.

The preseason hype had reached epic proportions ahead of Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut. A week later, expectations are starting to wane for the No. 1 pick.

The Indiana Fever rookie is still among the favorites by the WNBA MVP odds , and she's the runaway leader in the Rookie of the Year race. But our  best sports betting sites  have started to temper expectations for Clark and the Fever, who are now dealing around 40/1 in the latest WNBA championship odds  following an 0-4 start.

They'll get a shot to secure their first win on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET against the Seattle Storm, who are 5.5-point home favorites through Betway to beat the Fever at Climate Pledge Arena. That comes even with the Storm falling in our latest WNBA power rankings amid injuries and slow starts for their key stars.

To accompany our best  Caitlin Clark odds and prop bets for 2024 , here are our top Caitlin Clark odds and player props for Fever vs. Storm (odds via our  best sports betting apps ; Pick confidence based on a 1-to-5-star scale).

Caitlin Clark odds, expert picks

Caitlin clark under 30.5 points + rebounds + assists ⭐⭐⭐.

We highlighted this bet as part of our Fever vs. Storm prediction , and it's still worth betting on game day with these -118 odds via Betway. That price pays out $8.47 on a $10 wager with an implied probability of 54.13%, per our odds converter .

It's an attractive bet considering that Clark is averaging just 17 points, 5.5 assists, and 4.0 rebounds (26.5 combined) and has fallen short of this total in three of her first four games. The only exception came Saturday, when she played a season-high 34 minutes while scoring 22 points on 17 attempts against the New York Liberty.

She's capable of matching that output again, but I'm skeptical that she'll do so against a Storm defense ranked third in efficiency (94.1), especially if defensive-minded rookie Nika Muhl makes her long-awaited debut.

Clark is also battling an ankle injury that she played through on Monday, but it could swell before tipoff of this game. That makes it even easier to fade a very high total.

Odds: -118 via Betway

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Caitlin Clark Over 3.5 threes ⭐⭐

Look, I'm not necessarily screaming in favor of this bet considering that I think the Storm pose a tough challenge defensively. But if you're determined to bet the Over on a Clark prop - and I know many of you are - this is the one I'd go with.

There are some positive indicators for this bet cashing on Wednesday. Clark has drilled three-plus 3-pointers in three of her first four starts, and she leads the WNBA in 3-point attempts (35) while ranking second in total makes (12). It helps that the Fever have often been falling behind early, freeing up Clark to fire away from deep.

She's attempted at least seven shots from long range in all four games, and Clark should get the green light for this contest, too.

I wouldn't stake too much on this bet, but it's a fun way to root for Clark, and there's a legit chance it cashes.

Odds:  -118 via Betway

Caitlin Clark 7-plus rebounds ⭐⭐

Again, my favorite play for this game is the Under on Clark's combined points, rebounds, and assists. So naturally, I'm not suggesting this bet will  cash - that would be counterintuitive.

But these +350 odds are compelling, and there's an implication that Clarks faces a 22.22% chance of pulling down seven rebounds on Wednesday. She finished with seven boards in her second-ever game, and Clark followed that with six rebounds the following night in that aforementioned 34-minute effort against the Liberty.

When shooters are struggling, one of the easiest ways to make an impact is to attack the glass. We've seen Clark do that amid her early struggles, and I don't mind taking a shot at these odds, which would profit $35 on a $10 wager.

Odds:  +350 via Betway

Fever vs. Storm game info & odds

• When: Wednesday, May 22
• Tipoff: 10 p.m. ET
• Where: Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle)
• How to watch: WTHR-13, FOX13+, Prime Video
• Favorite: Storm -5.5 ( -115 via Betway )

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soho Crime (June 28, 2022)
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Naomi Hirahara, born and raised in Southern California, is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which features a Japanese American gardener and atomic-bomb survivor who solves crimes (SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI, GASA-GASA GIRL, SNAKESKIN SHAMISEN, BLOOD HINA and STRAWBERRY YELLOW). Books in this series have been translated into Japanese, Korean and French (September 2015 publication date).

MURDER ON BAMBOO LANE, her new mystery series with a female twentysomething LAPD bicycle cop, was released with Berkley Prime Crime in spring 2014. Her next in the series, A GRAVE ON GRAND AVENUE, was released in April 2015.

She also has penned a middle-grade novel, 1001 CRANES, which was chosen as an Honor Book for the Youth Literature of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in 2009.

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