Category: Leslie Shimotakahara
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[ESSAY] “Return Trips: A Japanese Canadian Writer Revisits Her Family Past at Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival” by Leslie Shimotakahara All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. ARRIVAL I think of the internment camps where my Japanese Canadian grandparents spent the Second…
![[ESSAY] “Return Trips: A Japanese Canadian Writer Revisits Her Family Past at Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival” by Leslie Shimotakahara](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/766762714_1570548318418903_6545822534501777451_n.jpg?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Fragmentation and Repair in Leslie Shimotakahara’s The Breakwater” by Jonathan Han All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. Leslie Shimotakahara, The Breakwater, Cormorant Books, 2026. 350 pgs. Since committing his…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Fragmentation and Repair in Leslie Shimotakahara’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Jonathan Han](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/the-breakwater.jpg?w=900)
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Editor’s note: Leslie Shimotakahara reflects on how a childhood encounter with an institutionalised great-uncle, silenced by internment-era injustice, became her latest novel The Breakwater. She recounts research, family reticence, editorial reshaping, and the imaginative recovery of erased places, presenting writing…
![[ESSAY] “From Scrapbooking to Novel Writing: Giving Voice to an Unsettling Family Secret in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Leslie Shimotakahara](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/leslieshimotakahara_photo.jpg?w=1024)
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All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. [EXCERPT] “From The Breakwater” by Leslie Shimotakahara Leslie Shimotakahara, The Breakwater, Cormorant Books, 2026. 350 pgs. I wasn’t a week past my seventeenth birthday. Freshly kicked out of the house. All hell had broken…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Powerful Storytelling: Leslie Shimotakahara’s Sisters of the Spruce” by Namrata All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. Leslie Shimotakahara, Sisters of the Spruce, Caitlin Press, 2024, 234 pp. Set in…
![[REVIEW] “Powerful Storytelling: Leslie Shimotakahara’s 𝑆𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑒” by Namrata](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/leslie-shimotakahara.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png?w=1024)
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