{"id":17531,"date":"2024-03-10T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=17531"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T19:58:50","slug":"lara-jean-okihiro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/lara-jean-okihiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Jean Okihiro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lara Jean Okihiro is a writer, researcher and educator of mixed Japanese Canadian heritage living in Toronto. Okihiro earned a doctorate in English from the University of Toronto. Her forthcoming monograph Lost Objects: Literature and the Dispossession of Incarcerated Nikkei<\/em> (McGill-Queens University Press) draws from research conducted for her doctorate. Her first published novel, Obaasan’s Boots <\/em>is co-written by her cousin and inspired by the life of their grandmother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Obaasan’s Boots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-authored by Janis Bridger.
Toronto: Second Story Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Cousins Lou and Charlotte don\u2019t know a lot about their grandmother\u2019s life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family\u2019s secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese Canadian during WWII, revealing the painful story of Japanese internment. Her family was forced apart. Whole communities were uprooted, moved into camps, their belongings stolen. Lou and Charlotte struggle with the injustice, even as they marvel at their grandmother\u2019s strength. They begin to understand how their identities have been shaped by racism, and that history is not only about the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024 Fred Kerner Award<\/a> (Canadian Authors Association)(Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lara Okihiro personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Second Story Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lara Jean Okihiro is a writer, researcher and educator of mixed Japanese Canadian heritage living in Toronto. Okihiro earned a doctorate in English from the University of Toronto. Her forthcoming monograph Lost Objects: Literature and the Dispossession of Incarcerated Nikkei (McGill-Queens … Continue reading →<\/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-17531","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17531","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=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19390,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17531\/revisions\/19390"}],"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=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}