Goodreads asked D.R. Graham:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

D.R. Graham I grew up in Steveston British Columbia and first learned about the internment of Japanese Canadians from my Japanese Canadian friends and neighbours when I was a child. Then I studied and researched the impact of the internment more for a master's paper at university. It wasn't until I bought a home on Mayne Island and learned of the history of the Japanese Canadian community that lived there that the novel began to take shape. Ultimately I wrote it for my nephews who have Japanese Canadian heritage.

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