Hiroshima Bomb Money
Hiroshima Bomb Money
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Benita Hartwell
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Lynn Mullen
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Debbie Rodgers
, Joshua Lewis
, Sandra Furlotte
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Laura Patterson
, Natasha Andres
, Kevin Smith
, Mary Therrien
, Isisus Western
, Agnes Marshall
, Marjorie Roy
, Danielle Kat
, Andrea Pole
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Louise Walsh
, Cherryl Koylass
, Sandra Lackie
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Debra Fisher
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Adrienne Hubbard
, Jane Graham
, Sara Conway
, Anne McGouran
, Jennifer Beyak
, Patricia Johnson
, Stephen Pinder
, Kam Parbhakar
, Patricia McKeown
, Roland Schigas
, Paula Ritchie
, Julie M.
, Charles Leblanc
, Margaret McKay
, Karen Colwell
, Kartik Gupta
, BJ Underwood
, Pat Johnston
, Barbara Leckie
, Janice Cournoyer
, Emily Johansen
, diana kirkwood
, Lynn Bechtel
, Chris Lantz
, Penelope Penner
, Lisa Nerpio
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Lindsey Andronak
, K.I. Press
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Alice Meems
, Ellen Clarke
, Helene Fuhr
, Ken Gilmour
, Randi Ann Doll
, Stef Novakowski
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Deanna Carney
, Katie Kah
, Rita Osullivan
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Judith Pearson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Janet Hosokawa
, Thelma Ball
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
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Through the lives of three siblings living in Hiroshima, Japan, Terry Watada explores the sweep of history during the years 1930 to 1945, known in Japan as the Fifteen Year War. The youngest, Chisato Akamatsu, travels to Canada looking for a new life and runs into unexpected brutalities in immigration, a troubled marriage and the humiliation of the internment in her new home during World War Two. Hideki, the only brother, joins the military to fight for the Emperor and find "glory" in China. What he finds is the fallacy of patriotism, the brutality of war, and the futility of existence. Chiemi, the oldest, was in the city when to the atom bomb hit. She then desperately searches for her twin babies. The three encapsulate the hopes, fears, dreams, the inhumanity of the period and resiliency of humans caught in historic eventsThe bomb money, a mass of melted coins found after the bomb blast, stands as a symbol of the fate of the family. In his fourth novel, Canadian poet, dramatist, and novelist Terry Watada delves into the Pacific War, looking at WWII from a Japanese perspective, unique in Canadian literature.
