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“Hopeful monsters” are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt and survive in their environments. In these devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past.Home becomes fraught, reality a nightmare as Hiromi Goto weaves her characters through tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance. They are the walking wounded—a mother who is terrified by a newborn daughter who bears a tail; a “stinky girl” who studies the human condition in a shopping mall; a family on holiday wih a visiting grandfather who cannot abide their “foreign” nature. But wills are a force unto themselves, and Goto’s characters are imbued with the light of myth and magic-realism. With humor and keen insight, Goto makes the familiar seem strange, and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd and the sublime.From...]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:49:44 +0200 https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233853-chorus_of_mushrooms.html https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233853-chorus_of_mushrooms.html
Hiromi Goto's debut novel has become a Canadian classic. The winner of the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Canada and Caribbean Region and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award, it is a powerful narrative of three generations of Japanese Canadian women on the Canadian prairies. Funny, scandalous, and melancholic all at once, this superlative narrative is filled with echoes and retellings, memories and Japanese folk tales. From The Tale of Genji to the Calgary Stampede, from the sharing of recipes to hitchhiking the Trans-Canada highway, it weaves a story that slides between histories, countries and desire. It is a timeless exploration of immigration and belonging.This twentieth anniversary reprinting of the landmark novel includes an Afterword by Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl) and an interview with the author.]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:07:00 +0200 https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233633-half_world.html https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233633-half_world.html
Melanie Tamaki is human—but her parents aren't. They are from Half World, a Limbo between our world and the afterlife, and her father is still there. When her mother disappears, Melanie must follow her to Half World—and neither of them may return alive. Imagine Coraline as filmed by the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle), or Neil Gaiman collaborating with Charles de Lint. Half World is vivid, visceral, unforgettable, a combination of prose and images that will haunt you.]]> Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:03:23 +0200 https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233854-darkest_light.html https://archive.bookfrom.net/hiromi-goto/233854-darkest_light.html
The breathtaking follow-up novel to the award-winning Half WorldThe recently reunited realms of the Flesh, Half World and the Spirit are again at risk—something has been left undone. Gee, adopted as an infant, has been kept ignorant of his troubled past. Now at sixteen, he is a loner both despised and feared by his classmates. dark feelings, unbidden, slowly grow inside him. Even as he struggles to control them, his past catches up with him and compels him to journey to Half World. Abandoning his adoptive grandmother and the place he has called home, Gee must face what he used to be in order to determine his fate and the fate of the Three Realms. Aided by a surly cat and a troubled newfound friend, Gee must fight the monstrous and the horrific in Half World. Most difficult of all, he must overcome his own propensity for evil.The nightmarish adventure picks up sixteen years after Melanie's return in Half World (2009, Puffin). With a new dark hero whose unlikely...]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:07:00 +0200