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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Length 264 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Stories That Bind
Released February 15, 2012
Identifier (ISBN) 11633405
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Leslie Shimotakahara writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Leslie Shimotakahara lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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