Leslie Shimotakahara ’06 PhD writes: “My fourth novel, The Breakwater, was published in April by Cormorant Books. It explores the rivalrous relationship between two brothers of Japanese heritage prior to the Japanese Canadian Internment, which one brother escaped by being committed to Essondale Asylum. Decades later, they must confront the lasting effects on them and the following generations when they’re brought together for a final reunion. I based the novel on the story of a great-uncle I didn’t know I had, until my family and I took a road trip to visit him at a mental health facility in British Columbia circa 1990. My most unsettling childhood memory, it inspired this novel.”
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GS Class of 2006