The Nail That Sticks Out
The Nail That Sticks Out: Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community is being published by Dundurn Press.
This fourth-generation account is a unique hybrid memoir exploring an evolving community through memories of places, events and traditions while tackling issues of identity, belonging and racism.
Through the lens of wartime incarceration, family honour, traditional arts and human connection, it celebrates the historical and cultural contributions of the Japanese Canadian community to the Toronto landscape.
Publication release is expected for October 2024. Get your copy today – by preordering from your favourite supplier.
Toronto Arts Council
Writers Grant
Thanks to the Toronto Arts Council for providing a writers grant to complete this important work.
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The work examines Japanese Canadian history and cultural arts via family stories, which reflect on generational conflict, identity, belonging, displacement and racism.
The work bridges two cultures and contrasts the North American dream of achievement through the conformity imposed by the Japanese adage: the nail that sticks out gets hammered in.
