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.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-us-ca
- ISBN
- 9781459737440 9781459737433
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.S532
- LCCN Item number
- A38 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (321 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00237667 (OCoLC)956556437 (CaOOCEL)477600
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Adrift 6
- One 8
- Two 22
- The Desert 38
- Three 40
- Four 50
- Five 65
- Six 74
- Seven 88
- Archive Fever 100
- Eight 102
- Nine 121
- Ten 133
- Eleven 145
- Twelve 155
- Thirteen 170
- Fourteen 173
- Fifteen 181
- Sixteen 189
- Seventeen 197
- Eighteen 205
- Nineteen 213
- Twenty 220
- Unpacking 224
- Twenty-One 226
- Twenty-Two 234
- Twenty-Three 245
- Twenty-Four 252
- Twenty-Five 259
- Twenty-Six 265
- Return Trips 274
- Twenty-Seven 276
- Twenty-Eight 282
- Twenty-Nine 296
- Thirty 303
- Thirty-One 313
- Acknowledgements 320
- Of Related Interest 324
