Welcome to Historic Joy Kogawa House

Joy Kogawa read the "Selkirk Address" to bless our food and dinner. In 2006, Joy was our featured author and she read a new work then. The Historic Joy Kogawa House Society is one of the non-profit organizations that receives monies ...

Kogawa, J. (1986). Naomi's road. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Summary Shortly after her mother leaves to go to Japan, Naomi is sent, by train, with her brother Stephen, her Aunt, Obasan, and her Uncle to an internment camp in ...

Worst of all for the poor book, the house Joy Kogawa is relatively nearby. Does that make Obasan regional? Horror of horrors. I was drifting through Obasan noncommittally, worrying about how I would judge it (given that we're both from ...