Leslie Shimotakahara: 3 books

"An engrossing and charming memoir about getting back to basics: home truths, family, and the life-altering, life-saving power of books." -Emma Donoghue, author of Room "I’ve read a lot of good memoirs, but it’s a rare talent that can weave together so many threads...

A mother-daughter story of a family, focused on the tensions between the two female generations working through the trauma of the internment camps of the Second World War Dramatizes how the internment of Japanese families in the U.S. and Canada has long been a subject of shame rarely spoken of in affected...

Family secrets surface when two sisters travel to Hong Kong to care for their ill father. When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister, Celeste, catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they find languishing...