Who is Iku Uchida from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family and what is their importance? Desert_Exile:_The_Uprooting_of_a_Japanese_American_Family English & Literature Iku Uchida | Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

Yoshiko's mother. Like Dwight, she is an Issei and a Christian and comes to the United States to be married. She possesses many traits of a traditional Japanese wife, being reserved, able to stoically endure suffering and so on, but also has a soft, kind temperament and a deep love of nature. She tends to her daughters' education and takes good care of her home and community. She is distraught when the FBI takes Dwight away and does not take well having to abandon her home and survive internment.