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(0)Hiromi Goto
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)
Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award
Hiromi Goto's acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience. Focusing on the lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta, Goto uses their stories to examine the impacts of privilege and cultural identity on Asian Canadian
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Series
Language
English
Description
Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the debut of a young Japanese Canadian feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until the publication of Chorus of Mushrooms in 1994, the primary voice heard from Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II. Hiromi Goto examines the immigration experience of the Japanese Canadian beyond war and into present day Alberta. Celebrating cultural differences as a privilege, Chorus of Mushrooms explores the shifts...
Author
Language
English
Description
“Hopeful monsters” are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt and survive in their environments. In these devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past.
Home becomes fraught, reality a nightmare as Hiromi Goto weaves her characters through tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance. They are the walking wounded—a mother who...
4) Half World
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her mother is kidnapped, Melanie, the human daughter of parents from the Half World, a limbo between Earth and the afterlife, is forced to follow her missing mother to Half World, from which neither may return alive.