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Description book obasan by joy kogawa obasan is a novel by the japanesecanadian author joy kogawa. Worst of all, though, in the eyes of narrator naomi nakane as she recalls the events of her childhood, was the. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. The walls were covered with paintings, photos, and bookcases.
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