Stealing Home

A family in a Wyoming camp copes with gossip amid the losses caused by their sudden removal and confinement. A World War II veteran reluctantly tells his granddaughter about his time overseas. A young boy acts as a translator between his mother and her doctor, trying and failing to convey the source of her pain. Sharon Hashimoto traces the costs of war and internment as felt across generations of Japanese Americans in stories that are vital to our understanding of our past— and, urgently so, of our present.  Stealing Home, the title of this stunning debut short story collection, is both an allusion to an American pastime and a searing condemnation of its history of forced internment. 

Sharon Hashimoto’ s first book of poetry, The Crane Wife (co-winner of the 2003 Nicholas Roerich Prize and published by Story Line Press), was reprinted by Red Hen Press in 2021, and her second, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize judged by Marilyn Nelson and the 2022 Washington State Book Award in poetry. Her poems and short stories have recently appeared in Indiana Review, Louisiana Literature, North American Review, Pedestal, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other literary publications. Stealing Home is her first shorty story collection.