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Novel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese American

September 20, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Working within the emotionally associative forms of poetry and memoir, award-winning poet David Mura has already created a body of work that tackles head-on complex issues such as sexual desire and addiction, race relations and the unspoken consequences of U.S. WWII internment camps on later generations of Japanese Americans.

Filed Under: Reviews, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2008, American-born Japanese, Ben Ohara, Calton Breen, Coffee House Press, David Mura, Heart Mountain, Japanese Americans, Mojave Desert, Northwest Asian Weekly, Turning Japanese, WWII, culture, vol 27 no 39 | September 20 - September 26

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