Barbed Wire Between Us

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Comet Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Length ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN 13 : 9781636551920

Barbed Wire Between Us

Written by Mia Wenjen
illustrated by Violeta Encarnaciaon

A powerful reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history.

Barbed Wire Between Us tells two deeply resonant stories across time.

It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the journey of a Latina girl detained in the very same camp decades later, during the U.S. policy of migrant family separation. Harrowing and emotionally charged, this poetic narrative compels us to confront a haunting question: What have we truly learned in the past 80 years about how we treat the most vulnerable among us?

With haunting symmetry and striking parallels, Barbed Wire Between Us is a moving meditation on justice, memory, and the echoes of history that still shape our present.


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