Scott County Library hardcover 330 pages
genre: realistic fiction
Oh my! I just finished reading this. SPOILER!
Mahindan and his six-year-old son Sellian have gotten on a refugee ship from Sri Lanka to Canada with 500 other people fleeing the war between the Tigers and Sinhalese. Canadian authorities have vowed to keep terrorists out and so the refugees languish in detention centers.
Priya, of Tamil descent but not a native speaker, wants to work in corporate law, but is placed with Gigovaz to help with the refugees.
Grace is of Japanese descent, has twin teen daughters, and is dealing with her aging mother's obsession with what happened during WWII to the Japanese. She is also trying to please her hard-line boss while being fair with adjudicating the hearings for the refugees.
This was a powerful story, moving in time from the present in Canada to the past in Sri Lanka as we learn more of Mahindan's life story. Wow.
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