{"id":17020,"date":"2023-12-07T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=17020"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:06:34","slug":"sara-truuvert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sara-truuvert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Truuvert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sara Truuvert is a Canadian writer of Japanese and Estonian descent who lives in Ontario. She has published short stories, poetry and prose in numerous literary journals in Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Phoebe Ogawa and the Art of Not Caring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Annick Press, 2026.
Forthcoming Oct. 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

12-year-old Phoebe Ogawa wants everyone at school to know that she does not care what they think. She definitely does not care about the fact that they\u2019re still laughing about her heartfelt performance at last year\u2019s talent show. Most of all, though, she tries to prove to everyone that she isn\u2019t struggling as much as she actually is with her Grandma Yumi\u2019s passing. To her surprise, her family discovers that Yumi, a world-renowned pop star, left Phoebe a mysterious note that hints at her last song, which has been seemingly lost for decades. Phoebe decides to find it and secretly pass it off as her own to finally show everyone that she is not someone to be laughed at. But as she starts delving deeper into Grandma Yumi\u2019s past, Phoebe starts to realize that maybe everyone feels vulnerable from time to time, and that some people might be worth letting in and showing your true, even embarrassingly heartfelt self.

Incredibly poignant and relatable, Sara Truuvert\u2019s debut middle grade novel explores the ever-relevant themes of the dissonance between our public and private personas, and the courage and vulnerability it takes to allow others to see what happens when the two connect. Alongside journal entries and letters from the characters, readers will also view glimpses of the behind-the-scenes of songwriting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mira and Baku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Michelle Theodore.
Toronto: Annick Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a week until Mira\u2019s birthday, and she\u2019s getting worried. Where is Papa? He has never missed her birthday before. When Mira\u2019s friend Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore, offers to help, they journey over farmlands and forests, mountains and river mouths, gathering clues to Papa\u2019s whereabouts\u2014clues that echo Mira\u2019s memories and overheard conversations in the camp where she lives with Mama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sara Truuvert personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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