The Reading List: Literature, Love and Back Again

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Winner of the 2012 Canada-Japan Literary Award Leslie Shimotakahara, a young, disenchanted English professor, struggles to revive her childhood love of reading. Returning home to rethink her life, she bonds with her father Jack over discussions about the lives, loves and works of the novelists on their shared reading list--Wharton, Joyce, Woolf and Atwood, to name a few. But when their conversations about literature unearth some heartbreaking, deeply buried family secrets surrounding Jack's own childhood--growing up Japanese-Canadian in the aftermath of World War II--Leslie's world is changed forever. Could discovering the truth about her father's past hold the key to her finally being happy in love, life and career?"The Reading List" reveals how literature can sometimes help us expose our past, understand our loved ones and point us toward our future.

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Pages 264
Language Eng
Publisher Stories That Bind
Published February 15, 2012
ISBN 11633405
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Leslie Shimotakahara finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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