Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/14/2016
2:00 pm
Location
Allendale Branch - Pasadena Library
Category(ies)
Loma Alta: Tales of Desegregation is an online book by novelist and social historian Naomi Hirahara about her Pasadena desegregation and busing experiences.
During this presentation, Hirahara will read from her memoir-in-progress. Additional contributors, including former John Muir High School student Meredeth Maxwell, will be sharing their work. Excerpts from Pablo Miralles’ documentary, “Can We All Get Along?,” currently in progress, will be shown as well.
Hirahara will have copies of her newest “Mas Arai” book, called “Sayonara Slam,” and some of her other books available for purchase and signing.
Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author, was born in Pasadena, California. Her father, Isamu (known as “Sam”), was also born in California, but was taken to Hiroshima, Japan, as an infant. He was only miles away from the epicenter of the atomic bombing in 1945, yet survived. Naomi’s mother, Mayumi, or “May,” was born in Hiroshima and lost her father in the blast. Shortly after the end of World War II, Sam returned to California and eventually established himself in the gardening and landscaping trade in the Los Angeles area. After Sam married May in Hiroshima in 1960, the couple made their new home in Altadena and then South Pasadena, where Naomi and her younger brother Jimmy grew up and attended secondary school.
This event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
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