Forbidden
Family
A
Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945
Margaret Sams
Edited by Lynn Z. Bloom
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
"A
war story, a love story, and a feminist affirmation."
—Library Journal
Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is
Margaret Sams's moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment
camp—the can of Spam hoarded for Christmas dinner, the clandestine
radio hidden in her sewing kit, the beheading of other prisoners
for transgressions. With her husband held elsewhere as a prisoner
of war and with a small son to protect, Margaret broke the rules
both of society and of her captors to fall in love and bear a
child with a kind and daring fellow internee, Jerry Sams.
"Her picture of prison life, with
all its hardships, heartaches, and surprising humor, is unforgettably
real."—Ralph Graves, author of Share of Honor
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
William L. Andrews, Series
Editor
Margaret Sams and Jerry Sams were married in
January 1946. Five decades later, the Sams live in rural Grass
Valley, California, northeast of Sacramento. Lynn Z. Bloom is professor of English and holds the Aetna Chair in Writing
at the University of Connecticut.
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October 1997
336 pp. 6 x 9
20 b/w photos, 1 map
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