Mark Sakamoto. Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents. HarperCollins, 2014.
A memoir of growing up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in a dysfunctional family, bookended by Canadian grandparents with similar but different experiences during World War II. Grandpa Ralph MacLean was a POW in Japan. Grandma Mitsue Sakamoto and family were removed from Vancouver and resettled in Alberta.
The sixth selection for the Hawthorne Book Club.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
LOUIS RIEL: A COMIC_STRIP BIOGRAPHY
Chester Brown. LOUIS RIEL: A COMIC-STRIP BIOGRAPHY. Drawn & Quarterly, 2003. I've owned this book for more than 20 years and only ...
-
Jane Austen's Persuasion Believe it! Cover design matters. An old painting on a Penguin cover of Jane Austen's PERSUASION hooks m...
-
June 15, 2016 Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman. Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm. 1991. Music rises from the huma...
-
Bully for You Can you believe it? I just heard it on the news--that still at least a third of the school districts (meaning countless number...

No comments:
Post a Comment