What the Scarecrow Said

Cast out of his native California, relocated to an armed camp, and made a victim of almost unbearable family loss, Billy Fujita finds himself in the coldest reaches of Massachusetts in the closing months of World War II. A spirited widow, Margaret Kelly, has helped secure his release in the hope that Fujita, a horticulturist, will turn her barren land into a working farm. Together with Margaret, a war widow named Livvie, and her damaged young son, Garvin, Fujita becomes a reluctant participant in an impromptu family. Providing a profound new perspective on the Japanese-American experience, What the Scarecrow Said is the story of how even in the harshest soil the roots of love and family can survive.

• Author
• Stewart David Ikeda

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 464

• Publisher
• ReganBooks

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-098718-3

• EAN
• 9780060987183

• Characters
• Billy Fujita, Margaret Kelly, Livvie, Garvin

• Settings
• Massachusetts

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 1997