I am very happy to share my blog here with you. I have prepared the summary for the novel, Obasan. I hope you would get benefited. Kogawa's Obasan is set in the early 1970's in Alberta, Canada. The protagonist, Naomi Nakane is a middle school teacher in her mid-thirties, one morning she receives a call telling her that her uncle, Isamu is dead. Naomi goes to visit her Obasan (Japanese for aunt) who is now alone after her husbands death. Obasan is seemingly calm despite the sad news. Naomi persistently tries but fails to engage her in conversation. She asks Obasan to rest but she refuses to and climbs up to the attic instead. As the two climb up to the attic, Naomi remembers her mother who left her family so abruptly many years ago. Thinking about her mother brings back memories of her childhood during the war. In the attic Obasan comes across a package from Aunt Emily who is Naomi's mothers sister. The package contains dozens of letters, seemingly random papers, journals an...