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by Joy Kogawa

About 79 pages (23,620 words)

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Obasan is Joy Kogawa's autobiographical novel of her memories of life as a Japanese Canadian growing up in the 1940's and 1950's. Kogawa's novel explores the horrors of the internment of thousands of Japanese Canadian people during World War II, as well as her emotional catharsis, as she comes to terms with her own personal history. (read more)

Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4

Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8

Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13

Chapter 14

Chapters 15, 16 and 17

Chapters 18, 19 and 20

Chapters 21, 22 and 23

Chapters 24, 25 and 26

Chapters 27, 28 and 29

Chapters 30, 31, 32 and 33

Chapters 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39

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