Malibu Library offers free e-book of Takei internment memoir
"They Called Us Enemy" is available with no wait list as part of a 190-library One Book, One Coast campaign.
George Takei's memoir about growing up in a federal detention camp is available for free for people to read on their computers or reading tablets.
The Malibu Library is offering unlimited digital copies of George Takei's memoir, "They Called Us Enemy," through an app. The expanded access eliminates wait lists to read the e-book. It allows readers with a valid library card to borrow the title instantly.
190 big library systems on the West Coast are part of a campaign called One Book, One Coast. Library systems across California, Oregon and Washington are trying to encourage shared reading and discussion.
George Takei, the 88-year-old actor, was a little kid during World War 2. The memoir recounts Takei's childhood experience in U.S. concentration camps during World War II.
The book is intended to spark conversations about history, identity and civic engagement, LA County Library officials said.
More information about the program is available at lacountylibrary.org/one-book-one-coast.