Silicon Valley Reads
If you haven't heard of Silicon Valley Reads, it's an area-wide book club put on annually by the Santa Clara County Office of Education to promote reading in the South Bay. This year's selections are When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka and The Souvenir by some lady whose name I can't recall at the moment. Buy them and read them.
posted by Zane Blake @ 12:11 PM
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This spare book employs the implacable Utah desert as a metaphor for the WWII Japanese internment experience, and the death of the newly planted trees reflect the withering of spirit the internees experience in the intellectual, social and physical deprivation of their transplantation. When the father is returned to the family at the end of the book, his transformed appearance is very reminiscent of a newly unwrapped mummy of an ancient pharoah, stripped to the barest essentials of humanity. His past has become mythical to the son, but his present is wraithlike.
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