Central College will welcome Neil Nakadate, author of “Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir” for a reading of his book. The event, which is free and open to the public at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 10th, will be held in the Boat, Moore and Weller Rooms in the Maytag Student Center.

During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the U.S. government. In “Looking After Minidoka,” the internment camp years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese American life, from immigration to the end of the 20th century. Nakadate is a graduate of Stanford University and earned his Master of Arts and his Ph.D. in American Literature at Indiana University. He is an Iowa State University emeritus professor of English and a past president of Humanities Iowa’s board of directors.