Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese Picture brides whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s.
Although tragedy strikes each of them, the same strength that brought her to America enable Hana to survive..
All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps.
Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves.
Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper
Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers
Dr.
Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese Picture brides whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s
