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One Bag of Rice
One Bag of Rice
Ink on paper
2023

From the days leading up to their forcible removal from their home near Los Angeles, my grandmother May writes that she and Minoru did not know where they were being taken or when they would return. She wondered if there would be food where they were going. With her two year old daughter (my mother) in tow, she packed her only trunk with baby clothes and one bag of rice.