This was a very well reviewed book and has won many awards so I was looking forward to reading it. It's a very tragic tale of a girl and her family during the internment of the Japanese Canadians in Canada. It provides fascinating insight into a dark period in Canadian history that we should never forget.
Unfortunately, I found it utterly too depressing. The worst part was that not only does it discuss the terrible things the government did to the Japanese Canadians, but the family in this story seem to add to each others pain and misery.