{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"GET LIT E24 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA","description":"The experiment continues. I have begun making time in the AM to do some writing, and for a whopping two days straight, I\u2019ve actually begun tapping away at some new work. I\u2019ll keep you in the loop. In the meantime, this week\u2019s show features Leslie Shimotakahara. Her first novel, After the Bloom, is the story of \u201ca daughter\u2019s search for her mother [that] reveals her family\u2019s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.\u201d Though you wouldn\u2019t expect it, I have my own connection to the internment camps, on this side of the Canada\/U.S. border (yes, we did it too). My former wife is half-Japanese, and while I was part of that family, my great aunt, Auntie Yori, was that connection. She and her late husband were both interned in British Columbia. It felt extremely weird, and not a little depressing, to know that our country was guilty of such an atrocity. Anyway, believe it or not, the book isn\u2019t that heavy, despite the subject matter.  Enjoyed talking with Leslie about her work, and I hope you enjoy our conversation. ","author_name":"Get Lit","author_url":"http:\/\/jamietennant.com","html":"