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Hiromi Goto

Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in Lekwungen Territory. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Other titles include The Kappa Child, Half World and Hopeful Monsters.  Her first graphic novel, Shadow Life, was published in March of 2021 with First Second Books.

Shadow Life

Shadow Life

By Hiromi Goto

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