Tracy Slater
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Tracy Slater

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Tracy Slater is an American nonfiction writer from Boston, based in her husband's country of Japan. Her most recent book is Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp, forthcoming July ‘25. Her first book, the mixed-marriage memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self and Home on the Far Side of the World, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a National Geographic Traveler Great New Read, an Amazon Editor’s Pick in Best Memoirs, and one of PopSugar's best books of 2015. Slater has also published work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time magazine's Made by History, and more. She taught writing for over ten years in Boston-area universities and in mens' and womens' prisons throughout Massachusetts. She is the recipient of PEN New England’s Friend to Writers Award and received her PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. (Photo by Patricia Shinkoda)
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    • Together in Manzanar

    • The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
    • By: Tracy Slater
    • Narrated by: Edelyn Okano
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-2025
    • Language: English
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