Families would be "repatriated" - and not of their choosing - to Japan or Germany in exchange for Americans that the Japanese and Germans were holding. war policy that Russell describes in emotional detail is that Crystal City was a hub for prisoner exchanges. Stripped from the context of World War II and the fact that the story really happened, the book reads like a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel. It was just like any other American town in the 1940s except that every resident was forced to live there, armed guards kept them from leaving, and the segregated Japanese and German neighborhoods were constantly at odds. detention centers, and the INS built family cottages, schools, barber shops and a hospital.
Crystal City was the only family camp among the U.S.
The story within Crystal City is told largely through two teenage girls who lived at the camp - both American-born, one Japanese-American and the other German-American.
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