{"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":"2023-12-07T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:17:41","slug":"sara-truuvert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sara-truuvert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Truuvert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>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<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Mira-and-Baku-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17022 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 291px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 291\/218;aspect-ratio:1.334862385321101;width:239px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Mira-and-Baku-book-cover.jpg 291w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Mira-and-Baku-book-cover-150x112.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mira and Baku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrated by Michelle Theodore.<br>Toronto: Annick Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Truuvert <a href=\"https:\/\/saratruuvert.com\/\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annickpress.com\/\">Annick Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book) Mira and Baku &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sara-truuvert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17020","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17020\/revisions\/17023"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}