David Mura, author of Turning Japanese, will read from and discuss his new novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire.

The novel explores the fate of a Japanese American family whose father was a No-No Boy during World War II. The narrator, Ben Ohara, is a sansei who grows up knowing little of his father's past.

Mura will talk about the continued relevance of the internment in the current debates on national security and upon the identity of Japanese Americans and Asian Americans.