Obasan

Joy Kogawa is a gifted poet and writer. She is also Nisei, the child of Japanese immigrant parents. OBASAN, her first novel, recovers the truth about what happened to her, her family and her people in Canada during WW II. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's 1982 prize, OBASAN reminds us of the indignities and injustice we visited on our loyal Japanese-American citizens.

"This quiet first novel burns in your hand. Rage mellows into sorrow; sorrow illumines love. It is the love you come away with, finally, in OBASAN." (Washington Post)