Naomi's Road by Joy Kogawa

Author:Joy Kogawa [Kogawa, Joy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Canada war internment Japan
Publisher: Hunter Publishing
Published: 2012-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

"That's not your flag," she says.

"It is too," Stephen says.

"You stole it," she shouts. "Give it to me."

"It's mine," Stephen shouts back.

"You're going to lose the war," she says in her sing-song voice.

"We will NOT!" Stephen yells so loud I cover my ears and run into the house.

From inside the house Obasan and I listen to Stephen pounding on the tub drum. Obasan's eyes are shut.

After a while Stephen comes in and climbs into his bunk. He lies down and takes the flute from under his pillow. All the songs he can remember, he plays and plays and plays. Even when it's time to sleep he keeps playing. Uncle joins in with the tappity-tappity sounds of spoons on his knees.

"Good music," Uncle says to Stephen.

"Good drumming, Uncle," Stephen replies.

When Nomura-obasan was with us, she used to say, "Music will heal us all." Obasan says it now, quietly, with her eyes closed. Obasan is still praying.

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