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Watari-Dori (Birds of Passage). Msuo Yesaki. Vancouver, Peninsula Publishing Company, Surrey, 2005.175 p., map. $15 paperback, foailable from Mitsuo Yesaki, #1105,1740 Comox St., Vancouver, K VdC 221
Set mainly in the Steveston area, this novel is about a young fisherman, named Miyakichi Ezaki, whose family has emigrated from a fishing village on Honshu Island, Japan. While the story covers less than a year of Miyakichi's life 0une 1915 to January 1916), in that period we see him come of age. Moreover, the author thoroughly describes the fishing practices of the period, the day-to-day experiences and routines of the fishing families, and the various hardships endured by the tiny Japanese fishing community, "which in 1900 accounted for over 50 percent of the fishermen"...