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Why is the father's absence such a powerful presence in the novel “When The Emperor Was Divine”?

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The father is arrested by the FBI because he is suspected a spy. The mother has to take care of her two children and move to the internment camp in Utah. After three years, the family is released from the internment camp; then they come back to their house and wait for the father's return.

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