The travelers meet at a railway terminus. Through motion, reflection, and the actions of their fellow passengers they rediscover who they were and decide who they will be when they reach the Crystal City. Even after their identities have been worn away by the endless desert, they seek Cerebos. The player characters are travelers from the City by the Sea, bound to mementos of the past. It’s about homesickness and lumpy beds and brand new stew and finding a coda for the broken song in your heart. It’s also about crossing a surreal desert by train, visiting improbable cities, and experiencing sublime understanding among uncommon vistas. Are 'strange lands' an objective geographic reality, or a mental construct in constant flux?"Ĭerebos: The Crystal City is a tabletop roleplaying game about exploration and self-actualization. Nobody knows this story.”įor more details on the book and the author, read the full ExpressNews."The concept of 'strange lands' (like that of 'home ground') has some holes in it, presents new questions. Every high-school student knows we interned 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. It wasn’t personal for the government, but it was very personal for the people in the camp. “They were taken because they or their fathers were from a country we were at war with. “None of these people were arrested for a crime,” said Russell during an interview in her contemporary art-filled home in Olmos Park. Gwynne (“Empire of the Summer Moon”) calls “a story of heartbreaking dislocation, of lives smashed and ruined, and of almost unbelievable human endurance, resilience and determination.”
Russell, a longtime Texas Monthly contributor and former Express-News columnist, exposes this chapter in American history in a book that Texas author S.C. Many American-born children found themselves in a foreign country where they were far from welcome, their parents penniless and thoroughly beaten down – and sometimes thought of as spies. That little-known story, rarely talked or written about, is shocking enough, but there’s a kicker: These detainees were pawns traded for “more important” Americans held behind enemy lines during and after the war.
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