Looking Like the Enemy makes a valuable contribution to the literature of Japanese-American internment. In telling one family's story, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald suggests to us not only the tenor of the times but a pervasive emotional and psychological condition. This narrative of imprisonment is painfully honest. It reminds us that historical wrongs are infinitely nuanced as they reverberate through the lives of human beings.

—David Guterson
Novelist
Snow Falling on Cedars

History comes poignantly to life through the eyes of a young Japanese-American girl who is imprisoned with her family in the WW II internment camps. Vivid, heartbreaking, a true story that must never be forgotten--or happen again.

—Brenda Peterson, Novelist & Nature Writer
Author, Animal Heart

Because of their racial ancestry, the Matsuda family along with nearly 120,000 other mainland Japanese Americans faced years of hardship, anxiety, prejudice, and discrimination during World War II. Looking Like the Enemy is a poignant story of that family's darkest days. Yet, shimmering rays of hope coupled with a solid foundation of courage and fortitude gave this family an immovable ballast to weather all that they faced. This is a wonderful, powerful, and mesmerizing read.

—Professor Tetsuden Kashima
University of Washington American Ethnic Studies Dept.