![]() More than fifty years later, after his wife's sudden death, Bin travels across Canada to find the biological father who has been lost to him. ![]() Removed from the one-hundred-mile "Protected Zone," Japanese Canadians were sent to internment camps where for five years they lived in hardship in hastily erected shacks in the mountainous interior. Families were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry, and Bin, as a young boy, witnessed neighbors raiding his home before the transport boat even undocked. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Canadian government uprooted Bin Okuma's family and relatives from their homes on British Columbia's west coast. In her new novel, she traces the lives, loves, and secrets in one Japanese-Canadian family caught in the larger arc of history during the 1940s. ![]() ![]() Frances Itani, author of the internationally bestselling novel Deafening and an extraordinary researcher and scholar of detail, excels at weaving breathtaking fiction from true-life events. ![]()
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