Cover of Love and War in California

Love and War in California

by Oakley Hall · 2006

+ Want to read

Having come of age in World War II California only to lose his classmates to the war, Payton Daltrey explores recurring themes throughout the rest of his life as he experiences true love, the horrors of Japanese internment camps, and the state's jazz days. By the author of Warlock. 20,000 first printing.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisWorld War IIWorld War IIMore like thisLess of this
Setting
World War IIWorld War IIMore like thisLess of thisCaliforniaCaliforniaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked Love and War in California? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Love and War in California. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. A Child Out of Alcatraz Tara Ison · 1997 Shares California, historical fiction
  2. The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County Cyra McFadden · 1977 Shares California
  3. Rumors of Peace Ella Leffland · 1979 Shares historical fiction, World War II, California
  4. Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future, Updated with a New Preface Peter Schrag · 1998 Shares California
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction), start with these.”

  1. 4-F Blues Charles Rubin · 2001
  2. When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka · 2002
  3. The Moved-Outers Florence Crannell Means · 1945
  4. Gardenias Faith Sullivan · 2005

“If it was the California that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s Kevin Starr · 1990
  2. The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History Philip L. Fradkin · 1995
  3. California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History Tom Killion, Gary Snyder · 2015
  4. Frontline Angel Genevieve Jordayne · 2015

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. A child in prison camp Shizuye Takashima · 1971
  2. Alice on the Island Mayumi Shimose Poe, Alessia Trunfio, Matt Forsyth · 2019
  3. The Japanese internment camps Rachel A. Bailey · 2014
  4. The Legend Of Fire Horse Woman Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston · 2003

Report a problem