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Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the debut of a young Japanese Canadian feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until the publication of Chorus of Mushrooms in 1994, the primary voice heard from Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II. Hiromi Goto examines the immigration experience of the Japanese Canadian beyond war and into present day Alberta. Celebrating cultural differences as a privilege, Chorus of Mushrooms explores the shifts and collisions of culture through the lives of three generations of women in a Japanese family living in a small prairie town.
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Hiromi Goto was born in Chiba<->ken, Japan, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta, a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Hiromi attended the University of Calgary and graduated in 1989 with a BA in Humanities (English/Art).
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sad and surprising and funny and tender read it again!,
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This review is from: Chorus of Mushrooms (Paperback)
Anyone who's had a grandparent or any relative from a different generation and/or country surely must read this. The things we don't understand about those folks and also the things we'd never guess about them come dancing out of these pages.
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By G.S. "Catwoman" (South Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chorus of Mushrooms (Paperback)
The first Novel from the Canadian-Japanese author Hiromi Goto.The novel tells the story of three generations of Japanese Canadian women lives in Canada, who seeks their special identity: the grandma who refuses to give up from her Japanese roots (and who hides salted squid in her pockets...), her daughter Kaiku who wants to be "real" Canadian and therefore refuses to speak Japanese, and the grandchild, Murial-Morasaki who is in a quest for her Japanese roots and who struggles to find a cultural identity somewhere between the two. This vivid life (and love) story is integrated with Japanese folk legends. I found it very warm, exquisite and honest, sometimes amusing and sometimes very mellow and sad. Great first novel and very mature. The book won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book.
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Read this book,
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This review is from: Chorus of Mushrooms (Paperback)
This is one of the best books I have ever read. The agony and joy of intergenerational struggles, intensified by immigrant worries, comes through on every page. Readers follow Murasaki's journey to know her grandmother's story through such imaginative contours. Canadian or not, anyone can identify with an adolescent's awkwardness; and everyone stands to learn from the struggle against racism that emerges on the Canadian prairies.
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