When Marco Calvo arrives at the synagogue to attend his grandfather’s funeral, he is caught off guard by something very unexpected. Among his close family and friends there are some people he doesn’t recognize at all. Several Japanese American families have arrived and no one is quite sure why they are here. What Marco discovers leads him on a journey to explore the powerful true story of his Jewish grandfather who sided with Japanese families during the incarceration camps of WW2. Set in the multicultural Seattle Central District of the 1940s, Josh Tuininga’s new graphic novel We Are Not Strangers explores the unique situation of Japanese and Jewish Americans living side by side in a country at war.