The FDR Presidential Library and the Poughkeepsie Public Library District present "Words of War: Julie Otsuka and Executive Order 9066" on Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home.

Julie Otsuka's novel,  When the Emperor Was Divine (Knopf, 2002), is about the internment of a Japanese-American family during World War II, as a result of FDR's Executive Order 9066. The book is based on Otsuka's own family history: her grandfather was arrested by the FBI as a suspected spy for Japan the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and her mother, uncle, and grandmother spent three years in an internment camp in Topaz, Utah.