EDMONDS—Author and public historian, Tamiko Nimura will be at Edmonds Bookshop on Thursday, August 20th at 6:00 pm, discussing her new memoir A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return To Tule Lake, published by the University of Washington Press.
“In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake…Part memoir, part dialogue with the past, A Place for What We Lose illuminates the enduring costs of incarceration while honoring the persistence of family, memory, and story. It is a profoundly moving exploration of grief, history, and the fragile but necessary work of resilience.” (Publisher’s description)
Tamiko Nimura, Ph.D., is an award-winning Asian American (Sansei/Pinay) creative nonfiction writer, community journalist, and public historian. She writes from an interdisciplinary space at the intersection of her love of literature, grounding in American ethnic studies, inherited wisdom from teachers and activists, and storytelling through history. Her commissioned work includes a California permanent exhibit, a co-authored graphic novel titled “We Hereby Refuse,” and a 10+-year series of essays for the Japanese American National Museum. She is a board member of the Tule Lake Committee. As the direct descendant of Japanese American World War II incarcerees, Tamiko has worked to keep this history alive through her writing and public speaking.
More about the author and her work can be found on her website: https://www.tamikonimura.net/
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When: Thursday August 20, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Where: Edmonds Bookshop, 111 Fifth Avenue South, Edmonds
Source: Edmonds Bookshop
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
