· Susan Aihoshi's Torn Apart is subtitled "The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi" and is set in Vancouver in While in no way as gut-wrenching as the Skrypuch title, it makes it . Torn apart is the fictional diary of Mary Kobayashi a Canadian born Japanese girl living in Vancouver before and through the start of the internment of Japanese Canadians. The diary start in , when Mary turns 12 and runs through for just a little over a year/5. Susan Aihoshi, Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi. One of the great challenges that the Nikkei community, particularly in Canada, has faced since the Redress victory () is to educate our young people about their community’s history, in particular, about the “Internment” experiences of their parents and grandparents and, concurrently, to instill into youth some pride about Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Aihoshi, Susan. Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, Vancouver, British Columbia, Toronto: Scholastic Canada, www.doorway.ruedly, my long-standing interest in, and familiarity with, Japanese-Canadian history initially made leery, but I now highly recommend this book for anyone from teenagers up (not just Scholastic's "older girls" target). Susan Aihoshi is a third-generation Japanese Canadian who was born in Toronto and continues to live there. She has degrees in English literature from the University of Toronto. Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book) Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi. Toronto: Scholastic Canada, Mary and her sisters are sent to an internment. When I sent these photos to author-historian Chuck Tasaka, he quickly put me in touch with Jimmie Aihoshi's daughter Susan, who wrote Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi (). It's a fictional diary of a young girl living in Vancouver when the interment began, based partly on her family's experiences.
Susan Aihoshi, Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi. One of the great challenges that the Nikkei community, particularly in Canada, has faced since the Redress victory () is to educate our young people about their community’s history, in particular, about the “Internment” experiences of their parents and grandparents and, concurrently, to instill into youth some pride about their Japanese heritage. Susan Aihoshi will read from her new book, Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, the latest title in the Dear Canada series published by Scholastic Canada. Torn Apart is the fictional diary of a young girl growing up in Vancouver during WWII. Mary enjoys school, her family and friends, and going to Girl Guides. A Chinese Canadian student of mine recently brought Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi by Sansei Susan Aihoshi, a Toronto-based writer and freelance editor, to my attention. Her maternal grandparents were Yoriki and Midori Iwasaki who published The Continental Times or Tairiku Jiho and her paternal grandfather was H. Naosuke Aihoshi, a tailor.
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