After the Bloom
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A daughter's search for her mother reveals her family's past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.
Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her own investigation. In the course of searching for her mom, she is forced to confront a labyrinth of secrets surrounding the family's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War, their postwar immigration to Toronto, and the father she has never known.
Epic in scope, intimate in style, After the Bloom blurs between the present and the ever-present past, beautifully depicting one family's struggle to face the darker side of its history and find some form of redemption.
Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her own investigation. In the course of searching for her mom, she is forced to confront a labyrinth of secrets surrounding the family's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War, their postwar immigration to Toronto, and the father she has never known.
Epic in scope, intimate in style, After the Bloom blurs between the present and the ever-present past, beautifully depicting one family's struggle to face the darker side of its history and find some form of redemption.
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Street Date:
04/15/2017
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Leslie Shimotakahara. (2017). After the Bloom. Dundurn Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Leslie Shimotakahara. 2017. After the Bloom. Dundurn Press.
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From a young age, Lily Takemitsu has experienced blackouts in her memory tied to traumatic experiences. Shielding her from sexual abuse early on, they became more frequent during the time she spent at an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. Later in life, these blackouts have become deletions of entire years of her life, including her time at the camp. Then, one day, Lily vanishes. Lily's daughter, Rita, has never known much of her mother's past. When pressed for information, Lily would become dreamy and confused, a never-ending annoyance to Rita's quest for answers about her own family history. Once Lily disappears, Rita must put together the pieces of her mother's past in the hope that it will lead her to Lily. Split between Lily's and Rita's alternating points of view, Shimotakahara's (The Reading List, 2012) first novel is a compelling work of historical fiction that scrutinizes how the experience and conditions of internment had a shattering cultural effect on Japanese Americans. Shimotakahara's writing is personal and entrancing, unflinchingly shining a light on this difficult part of history.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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