Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. With his wife’s persuasive voice in his head and the echo of their love in his heart, Bin embarks on an unforgettable journey into his past that will throw light on a dark time in our shared history. Read reviews and buy Requiem - by Frances Itani (Paperback) at Target. The Washington Post An extraordinary researcher and scholar of detail, Frances Itani author of the best-selling novel Deafening excels at weaving breathtaking fiction from true-life events. Both running from grief and driving straight toward it, Bin must ask himself whether he truly wants to find First Father, the man who made a fateful decision that almost destroyed his family all those years ago. Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows. One hundred miles from the Protected Zone,” they formed makeshift communities without direct access to electricity, plumbing or foodfor five years.įifty years later, after his wife’s sudden death, Bin travels across the country to find the biological father who has been lost to him. They were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry, and nine-year-old Bin was forced to watch as neighbors raided his family’s home before the transport boats even undocked. In 1942 the government removed Bin Okuma's family from their home on British Columbia’s west coast and forced them into internment camps. By the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize-winning author of Deafening comes a new historical novel that traces the lives of one Japanese-Canadian family during and after their internment in the 1940s.
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