Obasan by Joy Kogawa

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Based 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.

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The coulee is so still right now that if a match were to be lit, the flame would not waver.

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