Christmas 1943

This slim volume contains: * A Christmas short story - around 3,000 words - set in a World War II detention center on the eastern plains of Colorado. A place called Amache, or more officially, the Granada Relocation Center. * An introduction to the main characters of the Origami Moon series of books being released in the coming months.* Instructions for making an origami crane.* A detailed map of the center.* Photographs of real people who spent Christmas 1943 behind barbed wire.* And a newspaper, written and published by the prisoners themselves, on that Christmas Eve, almost three-quarters of a century ago.Leland Dirks is a writer and photographer who lives in a magical place the rest of the world knows as Colorado's San Luis Valley, the prettiest "middle of nowhere" you have ever seen. This is his second book in an unorthodox series that examines the wrongful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The series' unconventional approach includes a fusion of fiction and non-fiction, short stories and novels, and unorthodox characters and points of view.