Telling New Nikkei Stories
Two Japanese American writers talk about sharing stories in new ways. In the memoir, “A Place for What We Lose”, Tamiko Nimura reckons with her Nisei father’s unpublished memoir, family memory, and the enduring afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration at Tule Lake.
In Jennifer Morita’s mystery novel, “Ghosts of Waikiki”, an out-of-work reporter returns to Hawai’i to be a ghost writer and discovers coming home to paradise can be murder. Both writers have close ties to the Sacramento area.
Question & Answer session
Books to be sold/signed
Refreshments and snacks provided
Free presentations sponsored by the Sacramento Buddhist Women’s Association and the Sacramento Adult Buddhist Association.
Date of Event: Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Buddhist Church of Sacramento Kaikan (gym)
Books will be available for signing and sales through "Face In a Book".
Deadline for Registering for this Event: Sunday, October 11, 2026.
A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake” will be presented by the author, Tamiko Nimura. It’s “Part memoir, part dialogue with the past. A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake illuminates the enduring costs of incarceration while honoring the persistence of family, memory, and story. It is profoundly moving exploration of grief, history, and the fragile but necessary work of resilience” (Publisher’s description).
“Ghosts of Waikiki” will be presented by author, Jennifer Morita. It’s about an out-of-work journalist who reluctantly becomes the ghost writer for a controversial developer. When she stumbles into murder - and her ex - she discovers coming home to paradise can be murder.
