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By: Marnie Mueller
ISBN: 978-1950444588
Peace Corps Writers, 2023
The Showgirl and the Writer, A Friendship Forged in the Aftermath of the Japanese American Incarceration encompasses Mueller's own story, beginning at her birth to Caucasian parents in the Tule Lake Japanese American High-Security Camp in Northern California, and tells the tale of her long friendship with Mary Mon Toy, a Nisei performer who was incarcerated in the Minidoka Japanese American Camp in Idaho during WWII. The two met by chance in 1994. By then, Mueller was a published author, and Mary Mon Toy, by necessity of old age, had retired from an unusually successful career on stage and television for an Asian American actor of her time. After Ms. Mon Toy's death, Mueller penned the previously untold story of Mon Toy's fierce determination to put the Incarceration behind her and her precipitous rise as a working actor.
About the Author
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Award winning novelist Marnie Mueller was born in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp in northern California. In 1963 Mueller joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Guayaquil, Ecuador living and working in an urban barrio. She lives in New York City and Sharon, Connecticut with her husband Fritz Mueller.
To learn more about Marnie Mueller and her work, please see www.marniemueller.com