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Dec 22, 2010Rhonda J. Roy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A story about a Canadian family (second and third generation Canadian from Japan) sent from the coast to work camps in the interior of BC and in Alberta during World War II. The main character was a child during those years - we start with her as a small girl in a house in Kerrisdale and end in Grenfell, Alberta with the death of her uncle, who raised her brother and her. The story itself is compelling - uncomfortable to read what the Canadian government did in the name of national security. But the writing is almost poetic; the scents and sights of coastal forest, then prairie so vivid.