FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That's My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC's Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.
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A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this 'evocative and cinematic tale' (Maclean's). In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government remov... SEE MORE