Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

Join us for a talk with award-winning Jewish American writer Tracy Slater about her new book, Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp (Chicago Review Press 2025). The evening will include a reading, discussion, and book signing. Please register in advance. This event is sponsored by the BU College of General Studies, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, and the BU Center for the Study of Asia at the Pardee School. Tracy Slater is a Jewish American writer from Boston, based in her husband’s country of Japan. Her latest book is a work of narrative history titled Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp (Chicago Review Press 2025), named a Jewish Book Council Recommended Summer Read and featured by NPR Morning Edition. Her previous book was the mixed-marriage memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World (G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2015). It was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and one of PopSugar’s best books of 2015, among other accolades. Slater has published work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time magazine’s Made by History, and more. She taught writing for over ten years in Boston-area universities and in men’s and women’s prisons throughout Massachusetts. She is the recipient of PEN New England’s Friend to Writers Award and holds a PhD in English and American literature from Brandeis University.

When 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm on 29 October 2025
Building 871 Commonwealth Ave, Room 511