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Sisters of the Spruce

Sisters of the Spruce

Shimotakahara, Leslie

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ISBN10: 1773861379
ISBN13: 9781773861371
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Published: May 23 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging, desperately needed for the Allies' aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya's father, Sannosuke-- a talented, daring logger from Japan-- assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers. But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as the Captain escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend-- a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons-- to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors' stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.

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