George Takei shared his amazing story of a childhood in internment in the NY Times bestselling graphic novel The Called Us Enemy. This paperback copy was signed by Takei when he joined us in New Haven for the 2020 Visionary Leadership Award last February. As a bonus, when you win this auction you will also receive a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Takei to keep you company while you practice social distancing.

More about The Called Us Enemy, courtesy of Penguin Press:

Winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature

Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work

"They Called Us Enemy is truly beautiful - moving, thoughtful, important, engaging, and stunningly rendered. I am so excited to see this book's impact on the world." - Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

"George Takei's story reveals the important lessons of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration that still need to be learned today. They Called Us Enemy is a compelling must-read for all ages." - Karen Korematsu, Founder and Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Institute

"Riveting? Takei has evolved into an increasingly powerful voice for oppressed communities, and Enemy finds him at peak moral clarity - an unflinching force in these divisive times." - The Washington Post