Naomi’s Road by Joy Kogawa [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
03 Mar, by in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
Naomi is just a little girl when World War II scatters her Japanese Canadian family. Separated from their parents, Naomi and her older brother Stephen are relocated far from their home in the care...
When her elderly uncle dies, Naomi, an unmarried schoolteacher, is called back to the remote town of her childhood. There she is reunited with Obasan, her Uncle’s widow, and confronted with the shattered memories of her...