Distant voices

About this book

Distant Voices: A Sansei's Journey to Gila River, is an autobiographical account of growing up Japanese American in a farming environment. It also devotes chapters to Masumoto's Japanese heritage, including the effect of the World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans on his family and friends. A third generation farmer, Masumoto grows peaches, nectarines, grapes and raisins on an organic 80 acre farm south of Fresno, California; 40 acres of that farm was originally purchased in 1948 by his Nisei parents, Takashi "Joe" Masumoto and Carole Yukino Sugimoto, who met at the Gila River in Arizona, and married shortly after the war.