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Hopeful Monsters
The first collection of short fiction from the award-winning novelist.
Half World
Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. The only child of a loving but neglectful mother is just barely coping with school and with life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by the vindictive Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie begins an epic and darkly fantastical journey to save her parents. What she does not yet realize is that the future of the universe depends upon her success.
Shadow Life
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?
The Water of Possibility
One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.
The Kappa Child
In a house not at all reminiscent of "Little House on the Prairie", four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat.
Systems Fail
Systems Fail celebrates the work of Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin, WisCon 38's Guests of Honor. The volume includes two pieces of Goto's short fiction, N.K. Jemisin's Nebula Award-nominated story "Non-Zero Probabilities," and a selection of Jemisin's essays as well as her 2013 Continuum IX Guest of Honor speech. In addition, the authors talk at length with interviewers knowledgeable about their work: Goto with writer and editor Nisi Shawl, and Jemisin with critic and scholar Karen Burnham.
Chorus of Mushrooms
A reprinting of a true classic of Canadian literature
Darkest Light
The breathtaking follow-up novel to the award-winning Half World The 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 companions are a heartless cat and a self-destructive Neo Goth girl, Darkest Light is a compelling journey through despair in a desperate search for redemption.
Chorus of Mushrooms
Chorus of Mushrooms heralds the debut of a young Japanese Canadian feminist, Hiromi Goto. Until the publication of Chorus of Mushrooms in 1994, the primary voice heard from Japanese Canadians was that of the people interned during World War II. Hiromi 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.
The Women from Hiromi Goto's Novel 'Chorus of Mushrooms' and Their Canadian Experience
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1 (A), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistics), course: Canadian Experience and Identity in Canadian Literature, language: English, abstract: Throughout Hiromi Goto’s novel Chorus of Mushrooms, different approaches to immigrant life in Canada are presented to the reader. While some people feel safer and happier assimilating to the Canadian culture and way of life by simultaneously giving up their own roots, others are unable to lead a normal life without an attachment to these roots. This essay will analyse three Japanese Canadian women from one family and their experiences in Canada. They are from different generations and each one of them has her own way of dealing with this topic, and each one of them has a different opinion concerning the question what it takes to set new roots in a new country and what it takes to be happy as an immigrant in a new country
