Sifting is a hybrid memoir following a 30-year old millennial named Erica who embarks on a road trip to the northwest coast of British Columbia with her younger sibling. Erica and her sibling are Yonsei (4th generation) Japanese and Chinese Canadian and feel distanced from family history due to the Japanese Canadian internment and its ensuing pressures to assimilate. The siblings drive from urban southwest B.C. through rural landscapes in search of their late grandmother’s birthplace, passing through lands and waterways which Indigenous communities have stewarded since time immemorial. Along the way, Erica sifts through layers of history revealing complex ecological, cultural, and political truths. Written in first-person, Sifting uses a patchwork narrative composed of prose, poetry, diaristic text, hand-drawn illustrations, collage, photography, and mixed media art.