Now, Bin must ask himself whether he really wants to find him. “It has been years since his father made a fateful decision that almost destroyed the family. “Now, he sets out to drive across the country to complete the last works needed for an upcoming exhibition to revisit the places that have shaped him to find his biological father, who has been lost to him,” according to Itani’s publisher HarperCollins. Left alone, the widowed Bin Okuma finds himself reluctantly pulled into memories of when he and other Japanese-Canadians were interned during the Second World War. Requiem tells the story of a Japanese-Canadian visual artist who has just lost his wife. Evans, courtesy Quill & Quire.Ī new novel by one of Ottawa’s most accomplished literary voices, Frances Itani, hits bookstores this September. Frances Itani's newest book, Requiem, comes out in September.
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