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Initially suspicious, the girl becomes friendlier when Mari tells her why she and her family had to leave and invites her inside.", "rg_rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "mediatype_label": "Short Stories", "mediatype_icon": "fa-file-text", "rg_interestlevel": [ "Grades 7-8", "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "rg_genre": [ "Historical Fiction" ], "rg_theme": [ "Facing reality", "Growing up – pain or pleasure", "Reunion", "Working class struggles" ], "rg_availability": [ "Widely available" ], "categories": [ { "title": "Arts" } ], "topics": [], "authors": [ { "title": "Brian Niiya", "json": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api", "html": "https://resourceguide.densho.org/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api" } ], "sources": [], "title": "Floating Home (short story)", "published_rg": true, "modified": "2018-03-01T21:50:17", "databoxes": { "rgdatabox-Core": { "rgmediatype": [ "short stories" ], "title": [ "Floating Home" ], "creators": [ "Jan Morrill" ], "interestlevel": [ "Grades 7-8", "Grades 9-12", "Adult" ], "readinglevel": [], "guidedreadinglevel": [], "lexile": [], "theme": [ "Facing reality", "Growing up – pain or pleasure", "Reunion", "Working class struggles" ], "genre": [ "Historical Fiction" ], "pov": [ "Told from perspective of fourteen year old Nisei girl" ], "relatedevents": [], "availability": [ "Widely available" ], "freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "primarysecondary": [], "hasteachingaids": [ "No" ], "warnings": [], "denshotopic": [], "geography": [ "Los Angeles" ], "chronology": [ "1945" ], "facility": [] }, "databox-Articles": { "author": [ "Jan Morrill" ], "title": [ "And There Are Stories, There Are Stories" ], "pubname": [], "pubdate": [ "2015" ], "pubdetails": [], "doi": [], "website": [ "<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/29/floating-home/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/29/floating-home/</a>" ] } }, "rg_title": [ "Floating Home" ], "rg_creators": [ "Jan Morrill" ], "rg_pov": [ "Told from perspective of fourteen year old Nisei girl" ], "rg_freewebversion": [ "Yes" ], "rg_geography": [ "Los Angeles" ], "rg_chronology": [ "1945" ], "rg_hasteachingaids": [ "No" ], "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:short stories;\nTitle:Floating Home;\nCreators:Jan Morrill;\nInterestLevel:Grades 7-8; Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Facing reality; Growing up – pain or pleasure; Reunion; Working class struggles;\nGenre:Historical Fiction;\nPoV:Told from perspective of fourteen year old Nisei girl;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Los Angeles;\nChronology:1945;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Articles\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Author:Jan Morrill;\nTitle:And There Are Stories, There Are Stories;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:2015;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/29/floating-home/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/29/floating-home/\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Short story about a family returning to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Little_Tokyo_/_Bronzeville,_Los_Angeles,_California\" title=\"Little Tokyo / Bronzeville, Los Angeles, California\">\n Little Tokyo\n </a>\n from\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Rohwer\" title=\"Rohwer\">\n Rohwer\n </a>\n . When fourteen-year-old Mari returns home with her parents, she expects to go to their old house, but is dismayed when they go to a run down residential hotel instead. Her father explains to her that they had rented the house they had lived in before the war, and they it was now being rented to someone else. Mari decides to walk to the house to take a last look. She finds an African American girl about her age on the swing in front. Initially suspicious, the girl becomes friendlier when Mari tells her why she and her family had to leave and invites her inside.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Floating Home\n </i>\n was a finalist in the 2015 Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest. Author Morrill, whose Japanese American mother was about the same age as Mari and had also been in American concentration camps, is also the author of the camp themed novel\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Red Kimono (book)/\" title=\"The Red Kimono (book)\">\n The Red Kimono\n </a>\n </i>\n .\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Journey Home (book)/\" title=\"Journey Home (book)\">\n Journey Home\n </a>\n </i>\n by Yoshiko Uchida;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Little Exile (book)/\" title=\"The Little Exile (book)\">\n The Little Exile\n </a>\n </i>\n by Jeanette A. Arakawa ; \"\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Service Flags (short story)/\" title=\"The Service Flags (short story)\">\n The Service Flags\n </a>\n \" by Bill Hosokawa;\n </p>\n</div>\n", "moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Morrill, Jan. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/29/floating-home/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Floating Home\n </a>\n ,\"\n <i>\n Discover Nikkei\n </i>\n , June 29, 2015.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153435\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 223/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4477/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 924/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 7.627 1 -total\n 29.92% 2.282 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 17.54% 1.338 1 Template:Databox-Articles\n 17.22% 1.313 1 Template:Published\n 16.90% 1.289 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 16.26% 1.240 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3997-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153435 and revision id 28696\n -->\n </div>\n</div>" }