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About Stubborn Twig
Stubborn Twig is the true story of three generations of a Japanese American family living in the Pacific Northwest. After decades of hard work, Masuo Yasui was the proud owner of thriving Hood River orchards and a general store. Fluent in English, he was a leader in his community, a parishioner at the Methodist church, and a member of the Rotary Club. He and his wife raised and educated children who also found success — in law, medicine and other fields.
But in 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yasui's family was scattered when all West Coast ethnic Japanese were forced from their homes and interned by the American government. Yasui himself was arrested as a spy and imprisoned.
Stubborn Twig explores the American identity through the real stories of people who lived through the shameful events of this period in our nation's history.