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When Chisako and her lover are found dead in a local park in the 1970s, the small Ontario community is compelled to face a painful legacy of Japanese Canadian internment. As the investigation unfolds, readers are drawn into the psychological landscape of Miss Saito, the novel’s unreliable narrator, whose personal history intersects with the wider history of displacement and forced relocation. The story examines how memories of concentration camps and wartime confinement continue to influence identity, community dynamics, and the seeking of emotional connection.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Kerri Sakamoto
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