Requiem
by Frances Itani
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When celebrated visual artist Bin Okuma loses his wife Lena, he sets out to drive across Canada: to complete the last works needed for an upcoming exhibition; to revisit the places that have shaped him; to find his biological father, who has been lost to him.
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Concentration camps, Families, Japanese, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, Voyages and travels, World War, 1939-1945, Artists, Concentration camp inmates, Fiction, historical, general, British columbia, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Artists, fiction, Widowers, fiction, Canada, fiction, WidowersPlaces
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During World War II, Canada interned citizens of Japanese descent, just as the United States did. Here, Itani recaptures history through fiction by imagining the story of young Bin Okuma and his family, who were transported from their British Columbia home to a desolate area 100 miles from the "Protected Zone" and only grudgingly given access to food, plumbing, and electricity. Fifty years later, after his wife dies, Bin returns to the area, hoping to find the father whose awful decision at the time nearly destroyed the family.
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