Camp Nine, Revisited

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published January 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM CST

Our Thursday archive selection this week is a conversation with Vivienne Schiffer, author of the novel Camp Nine. The book is about a girl, a small town, and people relocated to a Japanese internment camp in Arkansas. It first aired on our show in May 2012.

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