Obasan
Author: Joy Kogawa
Winner of the American Book AwardBased on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War…..Read More
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