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Finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Ingenious Non-Fiction and the OLA Evergreen Award
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When the 2nd International Struggle broke out, Ralph MacLean selected to flee his stricken lifestyles at the Magdalen Islands in japanese Canada and volunteer to serve his us of a in a foreign country. In the meantime, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto noticed her circle of relatives and her solid neighborhood torn aside after the Jap assault on Pearl Harbor.
Like many younger Canadian infantrymen, Ralph was once captured through the Jap military. He may spend the Struggle in jail camps, enduring pestilence, beatings and hunger, in addition to a adventure through hell send to Japan to accomplish slave labour, at the same time as round him his buddies and countrymen perished. Again in Canada, Mitsue and her circle of relatives have been expelled from their house through the federal government and compelled to spend years eking out an lifestyles in rural Alberta, operating people’s land for a greenback an afternoon.
By the top of the Struggle, Ralph emerged damaged however a survivor. Mitsue, worn down through years of Again-breaking labour, needed to get started in every single place once more in Drugs Hat, Alberta. A era later, at a highschool dance, Ralph’s daughter and Mitsue’s son fell in love.
Although the Struggle toyed with Ralph’s and Mitsue’s lives and threatened to erase their humanity, those courageous folks one way or the other surmounted huge transgressions and realized to forgive. With out this forgiveness, their grandson Mark Sakamoto may by no means have grow to be.
