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GET LIT E24 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA
09/24/2026
GET LIT E24 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA
The experiment continues. I have begun making time in the AM to do some writing, and for a whopping two days straight, I’ve actually begun tapping away at some new work. I’ll keep you in the loop. In the meantime, this week’s show features . Her first novel, After the Bloom, is the story of “a daughter’s search for her mother [that] reveals her family’s past in a during the Second World War.” Though you wouldn’t expect it, I have my own connection to the internment camps, on this side of the Canada/U.S. border (yes, ). 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’t that heavy, despite the subject matter. Enjoyed talking with Leslie about her work, and I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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