Chorus of Mushrooms

ISBN 13:978-0-920897-53-9
232 pages, paperback
Fall 1994

Fiction | Nunatak

about this book

Chorus of Mushrooms  heralds the 1994 debut of the acclaimed feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until then, the primary literary voice heard of Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II.

Through a captivating narrative, Goto examines the immigration experience of the Japanese Canadian beyond war and into present day Alberta. Celebrating cultural differences as a privilege, Chorus of Mushrooms  explores the shifts and collisions of culture through the lives of three generations of women in a Japanese family living in a small prairie town.