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Maryka Omatsu's
family was among those whose lives were shattered
and properties taken by the Canadian government's
harsh and racist actions against Japanese Canadians
during the Second World War. Bittersweet Passage is
a moving account of the Japanese Canadian struggle
to come to terms with a painful history. It is also
the story of the author's own odyssey to rediscover
her family's past in both Japan and Canada and as a
key figure in the movement to win redress from the
government.
Maryka Omatsu's
authority comes from the fact that she was there at
those crucial moments. I'm very, very grateful that
her book is here.
-- Joy Kogawa
Winner, Laura
Jamieson Prize, Best Feminist Book by a
Canadian author which advances knowledge and/or
understanding of women's experience, 1993.
Maryka Omatsu is Canada's first Asian woman
judge--appointed in 1993.
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