![]() ![]() ![]() Bin's journey by road is also a journey down a meandering river of memory. Remembering the Bones, Itani's previous novel, the present-day story mainly serves as a framework for remembrances of a life. Requiem – with a mournful main character, a plot-triggering trip and a hint of a mystery. Thus does acclaimed Canadian writer Frances Itani begin Bin hasn't seen his father in 50 years, nor has he forgiven him for a decision he made then that fractured the family. Will he stop and visit his father on the way? He doesn't know. His intended destination is the site of an internment camp in interior British Columbia, where he was incarcerated as a child during and after the Second World War. When his sister suggests he visit their father in Kamloops, Bin makes an impulsive decision to go on a cross-country road trip, accompanied only by his dog. Bin Okuma, a middle-aged Japanese-Canadian visual artist living in Ottawa, is in mourning after the sudden death of his wife five months before. ![]()
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