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.
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
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