Hi everyone!<\/p>\n
The experiment continues. I have begun making time in the AM to do some writing, and for a whopping two days straight, I’ve actually begun tapping away at some new work. I’ll keep you in the loop. In the meantime, this week’s show features Leslie Shimotakahara<\/a><\/span>. Her first novel, After the Bloom, is the story of “a\u00a0daughter\u2019s search for her mother [that] reveals her family\u2019s past in a Japanese internment camp<\/a><\/span> during the Second World War.”<\/p>\n Though you wouldn’t expect it, I have my own connection to the internment camps, on this side of the Canada\/U.S. border (yes, we did it too<\/a><\/span>). My former wife is half-Japanese, and while I was part of that family, my great aunt, Auntie Yori, was that connection. She and her late husband were both interned in British Columbia. It felt extremely weird, and not a little depressing, to know that our country was guilty of such an atrocity. Anyway, believe it or not, the book isn’t\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>heavy, despite the subject matter. \u00a0Enjoyed talking with Leslie about her work, and I hope you\u00a0enjoy our conversation.<\/p>\n