The Silence of the Choir TC_Bestseller 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and

1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar

and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay

all the way up to the present

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