Susan M. Aihoshi's Books

Dear Canada: a Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Ruby Slipperjack,Carol Matas,Karleen Bradford,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Janet McNaughton,Norah McClintock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dear Canada: a Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Ruby Slipperjack,Carol Matas,Karleen Bradford,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Janet McNaughton,Norah McClintock

Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Ile; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds some surprising challenges in her new country, and many more! A Special Gift is a story from Ojibwe writer Ruby Slipperjack to preview her upcoming Dear Canada (coming in Fall 2016!), set the winter before the diarist is sent to Residential School. Contributors include Jean Little (Exiles from the War and All Fall Down), Barbara Haworth- Attard (To Stand on My Own), Sarah Ellis (That Fatal Night), Susan Aihoshi (Torn Apart), Norah McClintock (A Sea of Sorrows), Karleen Bradford (A Country of Our Own), Janet McNaughton (Flame and Ashes), Carol Matas (Pieces of the Past), and Ruby Slipperjack.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Scholastic Canada

Published Date

ISBN 10

1443133736

ISBN 13

9781443133739

Dear Canada: Torn Apart

By: Susan M. Aihoshi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dear Canada: Torn Apart

By: Susan M. Aihoshi

The harsh conditions of an internment camp become a reality for a young Japanese-Canadian girl. It is 1941 and Mary Kobayashi, a Canadian-born Japanese girl enjoys her life in Vancouver. She likes school, she likes her friends, and she yearns above all else to own a bicycle. Although WWII is raging elsewhere in the world, it hasn't really impacted her life in B.C. Then on December 7, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. . . and everything changes. Suddenly a war of suspicion and prejudice is waged on the home front and Japanese-Canadians are completely stripped of their rights, their jobs and their homes. Mary is terrified when her family is torn apart and sent to various work camps, while she and her two sisters are sent, alone, to a primitive camp in B.C.'s interior. Here Mary spends the duration of the war, scared and uncertain of how it will all end. In Torn Apart, author Susan Aihoshi draws from the experiences of her own family during "The Uprooting" of the Japanese in B.C. during WWII. Through young Mary's eyes, readers experience this regrettable time in Canadian history firsthand.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

151

Publisher

Scholastic Canada

Published Date

ISBN 10

1443119229

ISBN 13

9781443119221

The Manicurist's Daughter

A Memoir

By: Susan Lieu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Manicurist's Daughter

A Memoir

By: Susan Lieu

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan’s mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success—until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened. For the next twenty years, Susan navigated a series of cascading questions alone—why did the most perfect person in her life want to change her body? Why would no one tell her about her mother’s life in Vietnam? And how did this surgeon, who preyed on Vietnamese immigrants, go on operating after her mother’s death? Sifting through depositions, tracking down the surgeon’s family, and enlisting the help of spirit channelers, Susan uncovers the painful truth of her mother, herself, and the impossible ideal of beauty. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

235

Publisher

Celadon Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250835062

ISBN 13

9781250835062

Book's by Susan M. Aihoshi

Dear Canada: a Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Dear Canada: a Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Dear Canada: Torn Apart

Dear Canada: Torn Apart

The Manicurist's Daughter

The Manicurist's Daughter

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email